Middle East

RevPAR drops in Dubai, Abu Dhabi

  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 […]

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Dubai Tourism launches holiday home regulations

  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 […]

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Healthy competition in the northern Emirates

  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 […]

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Is Airbnb a threat to Middle East hotels?

  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 […]

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Secrets to hotel content marketing strategies

  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 […]

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STR: EMEA, Americas, and US hotel performance for September 2015

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 […]

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UAE revenues set to double

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 […]

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UAE hotels see strengthening RevPAR in July

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 […]

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MEA hotels increase revPAR, ADR and occupancy

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 […]

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Dubai’s RevPAR registered 9% YOY decline

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. […]

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