Articles tagged “saudi arabia”

The destination has a real demand story. The question is whether the room pipeline can keep pace.

The war gave Saudi tourism the clarity it could not give itself: the durable market is domestic and regional, the leadership is Saudi, and the reset is real.

Gulf travel advisories are moving. War-risk insurance authorization isn’t — and that’s the constraint that controls when European airlines come back.

Connecting 22 cities in nine months is a bold ambition.

Saudi Arabia's tourism chief is out and the giga-projects are being scaled back. The Kingdom’s tourism mission may be "unchanged," but is being unmistakably revised.

After months of false starts, Riyadh Air finally closes the gap between operational readiness and a true commercial launch.

Repeated delays, many outside its control, have kept Riyadh Air as a glamorous brand rather than a working airline. The U.S. permit filing is a tangible step toward actually getting into the skies.

Q2 will determine whether this is a temporary shock or a structural reset for one of Turkey’s most valuable visitor segments.

The most digitally ambitious airline start-up in a generation is going on sale the old-fashioned way: through the OTAs.

The Middle East was the world’s second-fastest growing tourism region in 2025 — and then February 28 happened.