Travel and Tourism Industry News

Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital, the world’s largest facility of its kind and one of the main tourist attractions in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, has won the prestigious ‘Golden Tourism Award’ by the Madrid-headquartered Trade Leaders Club, a business organization representing 7000 producers and service providers across 120 countries according to a report [...]

Etihad Airways has selected GE Aviation, Rolls-Royce, Engine Alliance and International Aero Engines (IAE) to power the new Airbus and Boeing aircraft that it ordered at last year’s Farnborough International Airshow. The Farnborough deal included 100 firm orders and options and purchase rights for a further 105 aircraft, which will be delivered between 2011 and [...]

Marriott has signed a long-term management agreement with Fawaz Abdul Aziz Al Hokair and Associates Hotels Company for a 250-room luxury JW Marriott hotel and a 50-unit deluxe Marriott Executive Apartments in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Both properties are scheduled to open in 2013. They will share the same footprint and will be located approximately 20 [...]

International opera stars Placido Domingo and Julia Migenes, and jazz singer Diana Krall will be the highlights of a star-studded summer in Jordan. The Jordan Tourism Board has announced the details of a spectacular line-up of international, Arab, and Jordanian stars who will take part in the Jordan Festival to take place between July 8th [...]

Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building being developed by Emaar Properties, will be taller than previously envisaged, with height enhancement work already in progress. Construction of the two communication floors is ongoing and structural steel work has started. The final height of the Burj Dubai will be revealed only on its completion in September 2009. [...]

Sharjah Commerce & Tourism Development Authority announced its participation in the third annual Beijing International Tourism Expo. The participation was as part of keeping with its ongoing agenda to promote the Emirate of Sharjah in the international tourism market. The event, to be held in Beijing Exhibition Center from 19th to 22nd June 2007, will [...]

Usama Bin Karim Al Haremi, Head of Corporate Communication And Media of Oman Air notified that Euromonitor International, the world’s leading independent provider of business intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers with offices in London, Chicago, Singapore, Shanghai, and Vilnius, with a team of over 600 in-country analysts worldwide, has issued in March 2008 its [...]