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Emirates to launch A380 service to Bangkok and Toronto

Routes Will Use Double-Decker Aircraft

Emirates to launch A380 service to Bangkok and Toronto

By eTN Staff Writer

Emirates Airline today announced it will introduce its double decker A380 aircraft on its Bangkok and Toronto routes.

Extensive seminar program set for Work Boat Gulf event

Free Event In Bahrain

Extensive seminar program set for Work Boat Gulf event

By eTN Staff Writer

An extensive program of practical, useful product presentation seminars will
be held alongside the Work Boat Gulf Exhibition in Bahrain on April 6 and 7, 2009.

Omani Women Fashion Designers Excel

Oman Fashion

Omani Women Fashion Designers Excel

By THE MEDIA LINE NEWS AGENCY/ Priyanka Sacheti

[Muscat, Oman] Situated on the edge of the Arabian Peninsula, the Sultanate of Oman possesses a rich, textured history, which has witnessed much cultural interfacing over the centuries, whether ...

Egypt culture minister nixes rumors about UNESCO fix

UNESCO

Egypt culture minister nixes rumors about UNESCO fix

By Hazel Heyer, eTN Staff Writer

Egyptian minister of culture Farouk Hosni lashed at Egyptian magazine Akher Sa’a reporters over recent gossips claiming a conspiracy within UNESCO against his candidacy for the position of ...

New rules for Dubai seek to tame expat exploits

Dubai

New rules for Dubai seek to tame expat exploits

By AP

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A peck on the cheek in public? Probably OK. Steamy embrace? Get a room.

Yemen blames al-Qaida for latest tourist bombing

Yemen Bombing

Yemen blames al-Qaida for latest tourist bombing

By Ahmed Al-Haj, AP

SAN'A, Yemen — Yemeni authorities on Monday said that al-Qaida was behind a suicide bombing that killed four South Korean tourists and their Yemeni driver at a historical site.

Green Expo 09 exhibitors donate to Bahrain charity

The Palm Association Receives Donations

Green Expo 09 exhibitors donate to Bahrain charity

By eTN Staff Writer

Bahrain Exhibition & Convention Authority (BECA) presented boxes of gluten-free Quinoa cookies, energy drinks, soda, and flavored water to The Palm Association on behalf of the companies who ...

Emirates airline still believes in superjumbo

Emirates

Emirates airline still believes in superjumbo

By AP

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Emirates, the biggest customer for Airbus' A380 "superjumbo," said Sunday it recently outlined a range of reliability issues about the double-decker plane but still ...

Yemen Bombing

4 tourists killed, 3 injured in Yemen bombing

By AP

SAN'A, Yemen — A bomb killed four South Korean tourists and their local guide in Yemen on Sunday, officials said, the latest such attack targeting foreigners visiting this poor Arab country that ...

Egypt churches give poor youth edutainment tours to poor villages

Egypt Tourism

Egypt churches give poor youth edutainment tours to poor villages

By Hazel Heyer, eTN Staff Writer

Despite being poor in Egypt, the village of Fayoum and neighboring others host poor youth while holding religious festivities, commemorating the journey of the Holy Family through Egypt.

Middle East aviation sector remains buoyant

Airlines Register For Engineering & Maintenance Event In Dubai

Middle East aviation sector remains buoyant

By eTN Staff Writer

With over half of all aircraft orders coming from the Middle East, the region's aviation industry looks set to survive the economic downturn.

Fingers crossed for Abu Dhabi’s overly optimistic $208 billion-dollar projects

Abu Dhabi Multi-Billion Dollar Projects

Fingers crossed for Abu Dhabi’s overly optimistic $208 billion-dollar projects

By Hazel Heyer, eTN Staff Writer

Nothing’s stopping the emirate of Abu Dhabi from catching up with its rival Dubai in the United Arab Emirates; even when it comes to extreme city budgets. Well, why not?

Al-Qaeda may outnumber tourists in Yemen's mythical land

Yemen

Al-Qaeda may outnumber tourists in Yemen's mythical land

By AFP

MARIB, Yemen — In Yemen's region of Marib, capital of the mythical kingdom of the Queen of Sheba, the followers of Al-Qaeda might well outnumber tourists these days.

Saudi Events Industry Forum on Saturday

Saudi Commission For Tourism And Antiquities

Saudi Events Industry Forum on Saturday

By eTN Staff Writer

The Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities is organizing the Saudi Events Industry Forum (SEIF) in the Saudi Capital, on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at the Intercontinental Hotel, King Faisal ...

Bahrain Exhibition & Convention Authority welcomes UK marketing agency

Site Inspection

Bahrain Exhibition & Convention Authority welcomes UK marketing agency

By eTN Staff Writer

Johan Hult and Chris Doggart, account director and head of technical production, respectively, for George P.

Now comes a floating hotel in Dubai

Dubai's Floating Hotel

Now comes a floating hotel in Dubai

By Hazel Heyer, eTN Staff Writer

Previously dubbed the grandest vessel ever, and once the largest, longest, widest and tallest ocean liner in the world following the 828.8 foot-long Titanic, QE2 now docked in Dubai may soon ...

Saudi Commission For Tourism And Antiquities Project

Al Baha - a future learning hub

By eTN Staff Writer

The Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) is preparing a project to transfer Al Baha into a city for learning. The project is based on the vision of HH Prince Dr.

World’s oldest profession, Dubai-style

Sex Tourism

World’s oldest profession, Dubai-style

By Sean Robson, THE MEDIA LINE NEWS AGENCY for eTurboNews

DUBAI, UAE (eTN) - The queuing starts early at the club located on the bottom floor of one of Dubai’s numerous five-star hotels.

The 24th Janadriya Heritage and Culture Festival inaugurated

March 4 - 18, 2009

The 24th Janadriya Heritage and Culture Festival inaugurated

By eTN Staff Writer

The Janadriya Heritage & Cultural Festival inaugurated its activities last Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at Janadriya village, 45 km north of Riyadh, and will end on March 18, 2009.

The show must go on in Dubai amid downturn!

Dubai Tourism

The show must go on in Dubai amid downturn!

By Hazel Heyer, eTN Staff Writer

Firms that continue to promote themselves through targeted trade exhibitions will survive difficult times and may even prosper at the expense of their competitors, according to leading event ...

Japanese mission reveals what lies beneath Egypt sand

Egyptian Artifacts

Japanese mission reveals what lies beneath Egypt sand

By Hazel Heyer, eTN Staff Writer

During routine excavations at northwest Saqqara, an archaeological mission from Japan’s Waseda University discovered a previously unknown tomb dating to the 19th Dynasty.

Syria eases visa restrictions on Iraqi tourists

Syria

Syria eases visa restrictions on Iraqi tourists

By msnbc.msn.com

DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria's state-run news agency says Damascus is easing entry visa restrictions to Iraqi tourists after 17 months of strict regulations that barred most from entering.

Boeing sees MidEast growth in 2009

Middle East Aviation

Boeing sees MidEast growth in 2009

By The Media Line News Agency for eTurboNews

The United States aircraft manufacturer Boeing is predicting a five-percent growth in the Middle East and North Africa in 2009.

New twist in Egyptian hotel tycoon murder case

Murder Mystery

New twist in Egyptian hotel tycoon murder case

By Hazel Heyer, eTN Staff Writer

Egypt revered him as the real estate/hotel king. Egyptians owed him respect. But now, he owes the Lebanese their pop princess. Where? Presumably in jail, if not, on death row!

"Bye-Bye, Dubai": The tarnish is showing on this once golden tourist destination

Dubai

"Bye-Bye, Dubai": The tarnish is showing on this once golden tourist destination

By Jason Cochran, walletpop.com

Dubai has been slapped down. Half of all construction projects are on hold, the stock market value has tumbled 70%, and banks aren't lending.

Assassins of Lebanon’s tourism architect and former PM released

Lebanon

Assassins of Lebanon’s tourism architect and former PM released

By Hazel Heyer, eTN Staff Writer

In an unexpected turn of events with links to a 2006 bombing, Lebanon freed three men jailed for more than three years for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

New digs in Dahshur

Egyptian Artifacts

New digs in Dahshur

By Hazel Heyer, eTN Staff Writer

Four anthropoid wooden coffins, three wooden canopic jars, and four washabti boxes have been unearthed inside an unidentified burial shaft located in the northern area of the Ramesside tomb of Ta ...

Israel inbound tourism expected to fall 20% in 2009

Isreal Tourism

Israel inbound tourism expected to fall 20% in 2009

By Israel Educational & Travel

In a survey of more than 200 members of the tourist industry, including hoteliers, travel agents, members of the aviation industry, tourist guides, restaurateurs, transport managers, results show ...

Behind the Cairo bombing

Egypt Terrorism

Behind the Cairo bombing

By Hazel Heyer, eTN Staff Writer

Last Sunday night, a crude, homemade bomb killed a French teenager and injured 24 others in the Khan El Khalili, a popular, ancient Cairo bazaar.

North & South American tourism buyers wrap 2 days of meetings with Jordanian counterparts at Dead Sea

Third Jordan Travel Mart To Convene In 2010

North & South American tourism buyers wrap 2 days of meetings with Jordanian counterparts at Dead Sea

By eTN Staff Writer

AMMAN - American buyers of tourism products ended 2 days of meetings, seminars, and workshops, which brought them together with Jordanian suppliers representing 60 hotels, receptive operators, and ...

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