Middle East
High Profile Global Travel & Tourism Summit to take place this April in Dubai
Travel and tourism industry leaders from around the world will converge on Dubai in April for some frank exchanges on realising their potential. But this is no sales conference or marketing seminar. The agenda is a rigorous assessment of the impact travel and tourism has had on the world we live in, and of how [...]
Middle East needs to do more to accommodate tourism for the blind
Technology adoption, best practice and speciality attractions in Arabian Travel Market seminar focus.
Middle East tour operators, travel agents, hotels and governmental bodies need to do significantly more to accommodate the needs of the visually impaired tourism market, which currently represents 161 million people worldwide, according to a specialist in tourism for the blind.
Amar Latif, founder [...]
Dubai targets 1.4 Million British Tourists by 2010
The Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) is targeting to attract 1.4 million visitors from the highly-promising UK and Ireland markets by the year 2010, up from the present nearly 700,000 tourists, according to Mr. Ian Scott, who took over as the new Director of DTCM’s Representation Office for the UK and Ireland [...]
Dubai to host Global Travel & Tourism Summit in April 2008
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has confirmed that Dubai will be the host state of the Global Travel & Tourism Summit taking place on April 20-22, 2008.
At the official launch last week, His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of the Dubai Department of Civil Aviation and Chairman and Chief Executive [...]
