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Hotels

Will Too Many Empty Hotel Rooms in Middle East Require a New Business Model?

Third-party management is a relative unknown in the Middle East’s hospitality landscape. The challenge that white-label companies face is convincing owners and operators to relinquish control.

Devina Divecha, Skift | 5 years ago

Online Travel

Rise in Mobile Bookings in Middle East Creates New Online Travel Competition

Online travel in the Middle East is not an opportunity to be scoffed at, and smaller online travel outfits and travel search engines are flexing their muscles against established portals like Booking.com and TripAdvisor to capture the increasingly digital traveler.

Devina Divecha, Skift | 5 years ago

Business Travel

California Leads U.S. Destinations’ Efforts to Target the Middle East Luxury Traveler

In the effort to attract high-spending tourists, states often look overseas. That's a good idea — international visitors typically spend more than domestic travelers. But certain international markets present a more complicated consumer landscape than others. That's what Visit California has discovered as it starts wooing more travelers from the Middle East.

Laura Powell, Skift | 5 years ago

Airlines

Emirates Is First Major Airline to Launch Basic Business Class Fare

Emirates has fired the first salvo in the unbundling of business class fares. Now you can buy just the seat, with none of the other trimmings that travelers are used to with top-tier carriers. It's a pragmatic strategy, one that gives more choice to travelers. The tension will now be maintaining that great luxury brand halo and still letting the premium cabins do the marketing hard yards for the carrier.

Colin Nagy, Skift | 5 years ago

Meetings

Midsize Cities Embrace Transformative Placemaking

Midsize cities are smart to focus on transformative placemaking projects that will not only allow them to bridge together different economic strata and cultural communities, but become in-demand destinations for travel, events, meetings, and conferences.

Abu Dhabi Convention Bureau | 5 years ago

Business Travel

Indian Online Travel Agency Cleartrip Acquires Flyin

Cleartrip is the second-place competitor against MakeMyTrip in India's online travel war. Its acquisition of Flyin signals a shift in its focus to the Middle Eastern market, where the price wars are less fierce.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Tourism

Oman Is Preparing to Be the Perfect Introduction to the Middle East

Oman represents one of the most fascinating opportunities in modern tourism. And thankfully, the country seems to be taking the right steps to realize the vast potential.

Colin Nagy, Skift | 6 years ago

Online Travel

Travel Search Engine Wego Labored in Asia but Found Its Footing in the Gulf States

Wego got its start in 2005. But it only found a path to scaling up recently when it shifted its focus from Asia to the Gulf States.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Airlines

Boeing Sees a $730 Billion Aircraft Market in Middle East Over Next Two Decades

Whose side is Boeing on in the Open Skies debate? We have 730 billion ideas it's not with companies based in Atlanta, Dallas, or Chicago.

Marisa Garcia, Skift | 8 years ago

Hotels

Accor Rolls Out a New Custom Brand for the Middle East Market

Global hotel groups are more aware of cultural nuances in new countries than ever before and Accor's ambitious efforts to create an entirely new experience based on location is one that others will quickly follow.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 10 years ago

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