The third edition of Cruise Travel Mart, held in Dubai, drew over 200 agents from the region s, alongside representatives from 15 key cruise firms. It provided crucial industry insights and networking opportunities, and showcased the latest innovations.
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), one of the world’s largest aluminium smelters, has inked an agreement with SAP, a market leader in enterprise application software, to upgrade its enterprise resource planning solution to SAP’s latest software – S/4HANA Cloud.
Saudi Arabia is gearing up to develop 320,000 hotel rooms to cater to the projected surge in tourism, with the kingdom raising its projection for tourist numbers to 150 million by 2030, according to a new report.
Kuwait’s economic growth (real GDP) projection for 2024 was revised by the World Bank to 2.8% year-on-year, higher than the 2.6% y-o-y forecasted earlier in January 2024 owing to expectations of phasing out of Opec+ production cuts, according to Markaz.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has officially announced the nomination of artist and calligrapher Diaa Allam as a laureate for the 20th edition of the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture.