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Articles tagged “uae”

Hotels

Wyndham CEO says Dubai’s grandiose hotels are monstrous

Wyndham plays on the middle and low end of the market, so the CEO has a reason for saying what he did. But he is right, opulence for opulence sake is Dubai's specialty.

HotelierMiddleEast | 11 years ago

Hotels

The state of staff satisfaction and salaries at hotels across the Middle East

Considering the changes in the region over the past 18 months, this year's survey results are a positive sign.

ArabianBusiness.com Staff, HotelierMiddleEast.com | 11 years ago

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Tourism

The world’s largest mall eyes 100 million visitors with huge expansion

The world's biggest mall inside the world's biggest mall: Dubai. The scale can only go bigger.

Arab News | 11 years ago

The world’s largest mall eyes 100 million visitors with huge expansion

Tourism

Now Sharjah has Dubai envy: Launches big island tourism project

Putting "ecotourism" in a big project in the desert nation makes it one, right? Right.

Khaleej Times | 12 years ago

Now Sharjah has Dubai envy: Launches big island tourism project

Tourism

Dubai institutes women-only beach days; separates tourists areas from locals

As a historically conservative culture like UAE's clashes with its relentless drive for modernity, these kind of measures help in coexistence of tourists and immigrants with locals' cultural sensitivities.

Sailaja Saseendran, Khaleej Times | 12 years ago

Dubai institutes women-only beach days; separates tourists areas from locals

Airlines

Airline industry groups oppose DHS’s plan for Abu Dhabi pre-clearance facility

These airline industry groups are as opaque about their opposition to the UAE pre-clearance facility as they are about their financial backers, and we have the unfortunate feeling that its based more on prejudice than funding concerns.

Skift | 12 years ago

Tourism

Ras al-Khaimah, the new emirate rising

RAK is the slower, quiet cousin emirate to the flashiness of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and is rapidly rising in tourism ranks.

Skift | 12 years ago

Ras al-Khaimah, the new emirate rising

Ground Transport

Dubai’s unlikeliest hope in an ad campaign: Mixing public transport and obesity

Gotta give them marks for trying, by trying to change two ingrained cultural habits of Dubai residents.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

The rise of Middle East aviation hubs is a feat of geography

The rulers of these tiny nation-states have realized the geopolitical advantage of being located where they are, and used the airlines as a proxy to extend their power.

Scott Mayerowitz, Associated Press | 12 years ago

The rise of Middle East aviation hubs is a feat of geography

SkiftX

UAE tourism to hit $7.5 billion annually by 2016 after efforts by emirates

All the seven emirates in UAE have figured out that rapid development as a shopping, leisure and tourism destination is their way to grow in an oil-less future.

Issac John, Khaleej Times | 12 years ago