KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian travel marketplace LokaLocal welcomes visitors from around the world to experience out-of-the-guidebook neighbourhoods and activities in Malaysia, hosted by passionate locals. With over 500 tours and activities across Malaysia, travellers can choose to join heritage walks, cooking classes, dining experiences, cultural workshops and eco adventures that showcase the local sights, sounds and scents. Amongst them, travellers can enjoy batik …

DUBAI: Two UAE-based design teams have been selected to showcase their innovative blends of contemporary art and Emirati heritage through creative interpretations of the traditional drinking fountain – sabeel – that will offer fresh drinking water to millions of visitors across the Expo 2020 Dubai site. The designs, chosen by an international jury as winners of the Sabeel 2020 design contest, were …

KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 31 international media from 14 countries are in Malaysia to participate in the Mega Familiarisation programme called “Reminiscence Cultural Heritage of Malaysia”. The group, here by Tourism Malaysia’s invitation, will get a first-hand feel of the attractiveness of Malaysia’s cultural experience, as well as other tourism products that reflect Malaysia’s beautiful heritage. This Mega Fam programme is …

By Rafiq Vayani DUBAI: dnata Travel, the UAE’s longest-standing travel agency, is launching a free monthly newspaper designed for UAE travellers with the latest and most attractive travel offers available on the market. A first for the company, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, the publication will join the offering at the 30 plus dnata Travel stores across the country to bring …

DUBAI: Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, has partnered with Amway, the world’s largest direct selling business, on the latter’s APAC Leadership Seminar 2019 taking place at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) on 13th December 2019. Emirates will play a vital role of bringing people together to attend the first ever Asia Pacific Leadership Seminar – carrying over 6,500 distributors and …

SHARJAH: Air Arabia (PJSC), the Middle East and North Africa’s first and largest low-cost carrier, today announced strong financial results for the third quarter of this year ending September 30, 2019 as the carrier deliver solid operational and financial performance. Air Arabia registered a record net profit of AED 471 million for the three months ending September 30, 2019; an …

LONDON: Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, announced a partnership with Tourism Malaysia to attract visitors from Europe and the Middle East to Malaysia, via the airline’s Abu Dhabi hub. The agreement was signed at the World Travel Market in London, attended by representatives from both organisations and trade partners.  The agreement between the two organisations …

PUTRAJAYA: A total of 34 exhibitors comprising 14 hotels, 15 tourism product owners and five travel agencies are taking part in the Tourism Malaysia Carnival from 7th until 9 November 2019 at the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture’s Sanggar Pujangga Hall in Precinct 5, here. It is part of Tourism Malaysia’s initiative with the local tourism industry players to …

DUBAI: Union Coop, the largest Consumer Cooperative in the UAE revealed that the total transactions through its electronic ’Share Trading’ platform accounted for AED 204,302 Million since the platform’s launch 5 months ago on May 22nd till the beginning of November 2019. Commenting on this achievement, the Chairman of Union Coop ‘H.E. Majid Hamad Rahma Al Shamsi’ said: “Since the …

DUBAI: Dubai International (DXB) is maintaining its position as the world’s busiest hub for international passengers with traffic reaching 64.5 million passengers in the first nine months of 2019.  Key facts and figures A total of 23,217,492 passengers travelled through DXB in the third quarter (-2.4% YoY), bringing the year to date traffic to 64,495,241 (-4.5% YoY). The slight contraction …