Middle East

  Abu Dhabi and Dubai’s hotels saw a drop in RevPAR in January 2016, according to a recent EY benchmark report. Hospitality markets across MENA witnessed a drop in performance […]

  Department of Tourism & Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) has revealed the Executive Resolution 3/2015 outlining detailed regulations for the emirate’s holiday home segment. This move aims to provide greater […]

  The Northern Emirates’ tourism and hospitality sector has grown in the last few years. Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah have both carved a niche for themselves, with Ajman, Fujairah […]

  When Airbnb first burst onto the tourism scene in 2008, offering people the chance to find cheaper-than-hotel accommodation in a number of cities, the millennials snapped it up. The […]

  NB: This is an article by Dan Cross, GM of Nexa Hospitality The catchphrase is ‘content marketing’. It’s the top trend in digital marketing for the hospitality sector, so […]

According to hotel performance data compiled for September 2015 by STR Global, when compared to September 2014, Europe reported a 2.3% increase in occupancy to 80.7%, a 5.4% increase in […]

A report by Euromonitor for the Hotel Show and The Leisure Show Dubai suggests UAE hotels’ annual revenues forecast set to reach US $10.9 billion by 2019, almost doubling from […]

Abu Dhabi Hotels reported a 27.2% growth in revenue per available room (RevPAR) to US$73.01 in July, driven by a 10.5 percentage point rise in occupancy levels to 60.8%. The […]

STR Global reports that hotels in the Middle East and Africa region reported positive results in three key performance metrics in their compiled July 2015 data. The biggest rise by […]

A JLL report revealed that Dubai’s hotel sector continued to face downward pressure in the second quarter of the year amid a slowdown in visitors from Russia and the Eurozone. […]