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The coronavirus outbreak is set to wipe out more than $10 billion from Indonesia’s tourism revenue this year as leisure travel comes to a near-complete halt, the government said Thursday. The country is preparing stimulus packages for the industry and a safety net for workers to blunt the impact, President Joko Widodo said at a …
Madrid:- The deadly coronavirus epidemic will cost world tourism at least $22 billion owing to a drop in spending by Chinese tourists, the head of the World Travel and Tourism Council said Thursday. The figure does not take into account the losses due to the overall drop in world tourism by other nationalities. The COVID-19 …
In the past two decades, the travel landscape has significantly changed in GCC countries. But, the concept of luxury has remained a vital element of the change. The UAE and Saudia Arabia have been in the driving seats. Statistics from 2018 showed that the UAE alone has 73 percent of the region’s luxury properties. The …
Travel agencies and other companies related to the hospitality industry around the globe are fast embracing new trends in the global halal travel industry in 2020. Following is a list of the newest trends of halal travel in 2020. The growth of halal travel is not slowing down, with Muslim travelers predicted to contribute US$300 …
UAE-based hotel group TIME hotels is targeting investment opportunities in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan as part of its international expansion prospects. The chief executive officer of TIME Hotels, Mohamed Awadalla, was invited by the State Committee on Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan to discuss potential hospitality investments in Tatarstan’s capital city of Kazan. The …
How to attract Muslim tourists to Taiwan in the year 2020 and beyond? The answer to this question may not be as straightforward in the wake of the current COVID-19 pandemic. The country has pretty much conquered the Japanese market. Every year since 2014, Taiwan has been the no. 1 overseas destination for Japanese travelers. …
Jannah Hotels & Resorts has announced an array of offers and packages to support Expo 2020 Dubai across all its properties. The brand will offer accommodation at Jannah Burj Al Sarab, Jannah Marina Bay Suites, Jannah Place Dubai Marina, Jannah Dubai Creeksside and Jannah Ras Al Khaimah. As a leading Halal-friendly hotel group in the …
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. While international tensions …
Since 2016, the ongoing political and economic crisis in Turkey has caused tourist numbers to plummet, especially those driven by western travelers. According to a new market report from Horwath HTL, the decline was largely reflected in a decrease in guestroom prices. After a disappointing two years, however, Turkey has started to recover, with 2017 seeing the …
The Global Islamic Economy Indicator (GIEI) is an annual ranking of the Islamic Economy pillars – of which travel is a key pillar – and is part of the State of the Global Islamic Economy Report 2017/18 produced by Thomson Reuters in collaboration with DinarStandard. The ranking assesses the country’s ecosystem, including supply and demand …
Taiwanese travel e-commerce platform, KKDay, has announced it is expanding its footprint to Malaysia. With the launch of platform, CEO Ming Chen wants to dominate the $5 million travel and tourism industry of the nation. The company, strategically, planned the move into the country seeing a “growing population, wanderlust for travel among Malaysians, and a thriving …
This year’s Arabian Travel Market witnessed a 10 per cent increase in visitors from the GCC and a 7 per cent increase in international visitors to the event, which was held in Dubai World Trade Centre from April 24-27. For the second year in succession, visitor numbers smashed through the 28,000 mark – the show …
The Philippines is expecting a 15 to 20 percent increase in the number of Qatari visitors this year while setting a target of seven to eight million international visitors for 2017, an official from the Philippine Department of Tourism (DOT) has said. “For this year, we are targeting a low of seven million and a …
Global Muslim Travel Index 2017 shows Qatar is one of top 10 Muslim-friendly tourist destinations among 48 OIC member countries included in the survey. The report released by Mastercard-CrescentRating has ranked as many as 130 destinations including 48 OIC destinations and 82 non-OIC destinations. Qatar secured 70.5 scores in the criteria set to choose Muslim …
Jakarta: – Based on the study by the Mastercard-CrescentRating Global Tourist Index (GMTI) 2017 officially released in Jakarta, Indonesia ranks third in the Muslim tourism market sector (halal tourism) for a number of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and non-OIC destinations. Indonesia’s position is up one rank from the previous year. The leader of the …
Taiwan is a beautiful island country layered with the heritage of Taiwanese aboriginals, Dutch, Spanish and Chinese in a beautiful cultural amalgam of sorts. Endowed with magnificent peaks, green rolling hills, plains, basins, coastlines, lush forests and national parks, it is also a nature lover’s paradise. At the backdrop of the Arabian Travel Market, the …
KUCHING: The Tanjung Manis Halal Hub (TMHH) has great business potential for upstream, downstream, and midstream industries. Sharifah Mature Wan Razali the principal assistant secretary of Industry, Trade and Investment Promotion Division of the Ministry of Industrial and Entrepreneur Development, Trade and Investment (MIETI) said the hub could penetrate not just the domestic market but …
SHAH ALAM: The Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority (Risda) targets to market food products such as biscuits and chocolates by its smallholders or entrepreneurs to the supermarket chain in China by July this year. Chairman Datuk Zahidi Zainul Abidin said this was one of the initiatives by the agency to assist in opening up market …
In a survey last year of the world’s most Muslim-friendly countries for travelers, Korea ranked 54th out of 130 countries, falling far behind the global average in terms of halal dining, prayer room availability and language access. The survey, called the Global Muslim Travel Index, was conducted by MasterCard and CrescentRating, a company that provides …
Emirates Islamic, one of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the UAE, has announced a mega Miles campaign on its Skywards Cards. The bank will offer bonus Skywards Miles to new cardholders and higher Miles for spends on its Infinite and Signature Skywards Visa credit cards. The offer is valid till June 30, with cardholders …
PETALING JAYA: There’s a “first” for everything in the world, and PNB Perdana Hotel has carved a name for itself as being the first hotel in Malaysia to hold full halal certification, a mega attraction to Muslim travelers the world over. Just a stone’s throw away from the iconic Petronas Towers in the heart of …
The government has instructed five ministries and Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization to form a taskforce whose sole responsibility is to ensure Tabriz’s hospitality will live up to its status in 2018. In December 2015, tourism ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation member states selected Tabriz as the capital of Islamic tourism …
TEHRAN – The deputy culture and tourism minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan has held talks with provincial authorities of East Azarbaijan in northwest Iran, laying out a roadmap for widening cooperation thanks to countless mutual commonalities, CHTN reported on Saturday. During his April 26-27 visit to Tabriz, the capital city of East Azarbaijan, Adalat …
The burgeoning islamic economy is one of the fastest growing segments of the global financial industry, driven mostly by the key Islamic principles and values such as the concept of halal trading, Shariah finance, traditional values like modesty and halal tourism. With a consumer base of predominantly young 1.7 billion Muslims around the world, growing …
