Beirut and Cairo lead hotel occupancy growth
Lebanon is set to prepare for a promising summer tourism season with indications of improved tourist volumes after the travel ban lift by Saudi Arabia. The UAE is also expected to lift its travel ban.
Global cheese market to reach USD 100 billion in 2024
Several large groups are leading the sector. These include Lactalis Group, Fonterra, Dairy Farmers of America, and Arla Foods.
1.3 million hotel guests in Abu Dhabi in Q1 2019
Results driven by a boost in average room revenue, ARR, which increased by almost 15 percent coupled with an occupancy rate of 79 percent.
Over 500 new hotels are under construction in the Middle East and Africa
The Middle East total represented almost a 10 percent year-over-year increase in the number of rooms in the final phase of the development pipeline.
Over three million tourists visited Oman in 2018, half of them from the GCC
The number of hotels also grew by 12 percent in 2017-18, resulting in a eight percent growth in the amount of rooms available in the country.
Egypt heads the Africa hotel development top ten with more than 15,000 rooms in the pipeline
The four countries head the top ten by numbers of rooms in the internationally-branded hotel development pipeline, with Egypt showing 15,158 rooms in 51 new hotels.
What is wellness shaping up to look like?
While the benefits of spa and wellness activities have long been known to reduce stress and help us recharge our batteries, recently, there has been an increased focus on adopting a more holistic, mindful living approach all round. Today, it seems, we’re looking beyond beauty and fitness, and embracing the broader concept of wellness
as part of a longer-term investment in our physical and mental health needs. Chirine Salha, senior consultant at Ulysses Consulting, tells us more
Bahrain and Egypt leading tourism performance in Q1 2019
In the Middle East, occupancy grew by almost one percent to reach 71 percent in Q1, with an average daily rate of USD 148.
Managing shareholder exits in family businesses
The release comes at a time when many family businesses in the region are transferring control to the third generation family members, raising the need to set robust governance and succession frameworks.
Train your managers to manage
The word manager has a wide variety of interpretations depending on context, whom you ask and the title in which it appears, although as a rule, the role usually includes a level of responsibility. This is why managers must be trained to manage, as Mark Dickinson of DONE! Hospitality Training Solutions explains