Cruising The Oily Waters
By DOUGLAS HANKS
MIAMI - Carnival won't sail its cruise ships at night through the Gulf of Mexico. It's too hard to spot the oil then.
4th Annual Gulf Incentive Business Travel and Meetings Exhibition
By eTN Staff Writer
Initial unaudited figures of the 4th annual
4th GIBTM Held In Abu Dhabi UAE
By Motaz Othman, eTN
Started in 2007, GIBTM – The Gulf Incentive Business Travel and Meetings - in it’s fourth year opened today Monday, March 29, attracting 277 senior level hosted buyers from 40 countries to ...
Cannot Compete With Gulf Airline Fares
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
Last week saw the last flight from Mahe, en route to London with a stopover in Frankfurt, as the Seychellois national airline decided to drop the main German gateway from their schedule due to a ...
Gulf Cruise Tourism
By Claire Ferris-Lay
The Gulf’s cruise tourism will continue to grow but will never produce significant volumes of passengers, an industry expert said on Monday.
Focus Is On Other Areas In The World
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN
Star Alliance CEO Jaan Albrecht, while discussing other issues with this correspondent in Brussels last week, made it quite clear that the world’s leading airline alliance was not presently ...
Outbound Travel Falls 30 Percent
By Ivan Gale
According to airline officials and industry data, Gulf residents stayed home in greater numbers this summer due to fears over the H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic and the global recession.
Geneva Crime On The Rise
GENEVA — An assault on a Saudi Arabian outside a Geneva night club has cast an unwanted spotlight on surging street crime and claims of "cut throat" neighbourhoods in the Swiss city with an ...
Gulf Cooperation Council
By eTN Staff Writer
The Gulf Tourist Information convoy concluded its visit to the city of Jeddah yesterday.
Middle East Tourism
JEDDAH - Tourism within the Middle East is expected to rise by around 2 percent to 6 percent this year due to the financial crisis and swine flu, according to a new report by the World Tourism ...
Royal Caribbean To Sail From Dubai In 2010
The cruise operator views the Gulf as a major growth area for its business, and statistics for cruise traffic in Dubai bear that out.
Work Boat Gulf Exhibition
By eTN Staff Writer
While world market prices of oil are currently sitting at about a third of those enjoyed at the commodity’s peak less than 12 months ago, plenty of producers can still make profits at current ...
Exhibition: April 6 – 8, 2009
By eTN Staff Writer
Thanks to the generosity of the Arab Ship Repair Yard (ASRY), exhibitors at and visitors to next month’s Work Boat Gulf Exhibition and seminars will have a chance to take a close look at the ...
Free Event In Bahrain
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.
Work Boat Gulf Exhibition
By eTN Staff Writer
In the three years since they last managed a maritime event in the Middle East, the organizers of April’s Work Boat Gulf Exhibition have noticed a distinct broadening of the local work boat ...
Ensuring Gulf Maintains Its Share Of World Tourism Market
By eTN Staff Writer
DUBAI - Dubai has been selected as the host destination for the inaugural Middle East Tourism Marketing Summit, which will take place in December this year.
Singapore Airlines
By reuters.com
ABU DHABI - Singapore Airlines is increasing flights to the Gulf Arab region to tap growing demand despite the global downturn, its regional head said on Monday.
Work Boat Gulf 2009 Event
By eTN Staff Writer
Despite the Wall Street “meltdown” and the recent 60 percent drop in the price of oil, the demand for work boats, tugs, and offshore service vessels remains strong in the Arabian Gulf.
The Gulf
By khaleejtimes.com
DUBAI - The cruise sector of the shipping industry continues to grow, as the popularity of cruising holidays increases in the Gulf region and expects to handle 400,000 passengers by 2010.
$6 Billion Rail Network
By Yaniv Berman, The Media Line (www.medialine.org) for eTurboNews
A rail link between Turkey and the six member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is currently being studied by regional engineers, The Media Line has learned.
Flights To Begin At End Of October
By Wolfgang H. Thome, eTN Africa
The Sharjah / United Arab Emirates based first Gulf low-cost airline is now set for flights between Nairobi and Sharjah beginning at the end of October.
Bahrain International Exhibition Center - April 6 to 8
By eTN
The Gulf is now a major center for the workboat industry with multi-billion dollar offshore land reclamation development projects running concurrently with major oil and gas projects.