Dubai Travel News

Travel & Tourism News of Dubai and rest of UAE

Month: September 2011

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Germany successfully engages GCC countries in health related tourism

Text size     A road show highlights in the Arabian Gulf the outstanding quality of wellness and medical travel to Germany After last year’s successful promotional tour “Dallal fi Almania” (“Feel Good in Germany”), the German National Tourist Office…

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Dubai’s new hotel rating system to acknowledge budget boom

By Jamie Knights Although DTCM says its new classification system will include budget categories, it is also quick to emphasise that Dubai remains very much a luxury destination. However, others would argue that budget travellers have been an integral part…

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Princess Haya to steer revamp of Dubai Healthcare City

HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein is set to lead an overhaul of Dubai Healthcare City in a bid to steer attract fresh healthcare brands to the free zone and capture a slice of the lucrative medical tourism market. Princess…

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Princess Haya to steer revamp of Dubai Healthcare City

HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein is set to lead an overhaul of Dubai Healthcare City in a bid to steer attract fresh healthcare brands to the free zone and capture a slice of the lucrative medical tourism market. Princess…

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Tourism sector poised for further growth

Tourism sector poised for further growth DUBAI — The tourism sector in UAE and Dubai has bright prospects and their future growth seems to lie in exploiting the increased flow of tourists from Asian countries. A recently released analysis by…

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flydubai extends its reach in Russia

Text size     Dubai’s pioneering airline doubles Russian network with the addition of flights to Kazan and Ufa UAE, 26 September, 2011 – flydubai, Dubai’s pioneering low cost airline, has doubled its network in Russia to four points with…

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Dubai vows to ‘stand behind’ state-backed firms

Dubai, the Gulf emirate that teetered on the brink of default in 2009, vowed to stand behind its “strategic investments” including those facing debt refinancing such as DIFC Investments. The government doesn’t anticipate that DIFC Investments, a unit of the…

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Egypt tourist numbers drop 28.2% in July

Staff Thursday, September 22 – 2011 at 11:13 UAE local time (GMT+4) Replication or redistribution in whole or in part is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of AME Info FZ LLC / Emap Limited.

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Emirates announces Harare flights

The airline, ranked sixth in the world in terms of international passengers carried in 2010, says travellers using the service would “connect seamlessly to points across the Far and Middle East, Indian sub-continent, Europe and Australasia via the airline’s hub…

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Emirates announces Harare flights

The airline, ranked sixth in the world in terms of international passengers carried in 2010, says travellers using the service would “connect seamlessly to points across the Far and Middle East, Indian sub-continent, Europe and Australasia via the airline’s hub…

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Emirates announces Harare flights

The airline, ranked sixth in the world in terms of international passengers carried in 2010, says travellers using the service would “connect seamlessly to points across the Far and Middle East, Indian sub-continent, Europe and Australasia via the airline’s hub…

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Business Development Manager (Aa)

The Emirates Group is a highly profitable business with a turnover of approximately US$ 12 billion and over 50,000 employees. The Group comprises of Dnata, the successful Airport Ground Services and Travel Industry division, and Emirates, the Group’s rapidly expanding…

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Road to Arabia draws record attendance – e

The Arabian Peninsula workshops have now wrapped up with more than 300 agents attending the joint Dubai Department of Tourism Commerce Marketing (DTCM), Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA) and Sultanate of Oman Tourism seminars across the country. Three more winners…

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flydubai set to soar into Serbia

Dubai; 19 September 2011: One of the world’s leading cultural and party capitals*, Belgrade, otherwise known as Serbia’s White City, has been named the latest destination of pioneering low-cost carrier, flydubai. Ghaith Al Ghaith, CEO of flydubai said: “We are…

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Vice President Legal

The Emirates Group is a highly profitable business with a turnover of approximately US$ 12 billion and over 50,000 employees. The Group comprises of dnata, the successful Airport Ground Services and Travel Industry division, and Emirates, the Group’s rapidly expanding…