In-the-Issue

More than 80 travel professionals attended the official launch of Karhoo in the GCC. Vanessa Heydorff, Senior Vice President, Karhoo shared with TRAVTALK their plans for the year and how they will collaborate with agents across the GCC. Working with Karhoo, travel companies gain a more efficient search and booking …

The most disrupted industry during the pandemic was the aviation industry, however, the industry is adapting to new technologies that could help them to achieve a much faster recovery than expected. Greater collaboration across borders, technological development and commercial competition will secure the industry in these challenging times. Adoption of …

Summer in the Middle East has a myriad of escapes from staycations, daycations to wellcations.   Shehara Rizly   Mark Willis, CEO, MEAI and Turkey, Accor This summer we are expecting to see a pick up at our leisure resorts in the region as a result from the rise of …

Newly launched, Get into the Green Scene initiative focusses on sustainable activities. The launch of the ‘Get into the Green Scene’ initiative includes a sustainability calendar, featuring a series of environmental days throughout the year and ways in which people can engage within the theme of that calendar day. Included …

With development projects in the pipeline, some of the key leaders share their insights. HE Marwan bin Jassim Al Sarkal, Executive Chairman, Shurooq The two new multi-purpose family-friendly beach development projects are in line with Shurooq’s strategy to offer authentic leisure tourism activities that meet the demands of residents and …

Jun 30, 2021, Dubai: An end to the COVID-19 pandemic seems far beyond the horizon, but the tourism industry of the Philippines is dedicated to ensuring a phased reopening of the islands to offer utmost safety and hygiene to potential international travellers. Department of Tourism (DOT) Philippines has developed the …

Spain will open its doors to all fully vaccinated travellers authorised by the EMA or the WHO regardless of their destination of origin from June 7, 2021. The improvement of the epidemiological situation in Spain and the developing progress in the vaccination roll-out, make it possible to ease the measures …

Saudi Arabia hosted global travel industry leaders across public and private sectors at the Tourism Recovery Summit in Riyadh recently. The summit convened to discuss common solutions and tangible actions as the sector enters a new era. Participants exchanged experiences, ideas and opportunities to ensure the future of tourism is …

The President of Emirates Sir Tim Clark recently shared that the demand for air travel could come back at a ‘staggering rate’ by Q4 2021, if the vaccine programme beats the virus. He further reiterated that the low cost carriers would benefit especially from intra-European travel and domestic travel at …

It was a refreshing change as the rules and regulations eased out for the travel and tourism sector in Dubai to host events under strict compliance, hence the Marhaba Europe brought together four of the tourism boards with 60+ partners and 80+ travel professionals from the region for two days …