KARACHI: World’s renowned travel vlogger, Eva Zu Beck, has put Pakistan on the travel map for young people the world over. She has now partnered with country’s leading digital communications company, Jazz, for an enthralling digital travel show called – ‘Eva Travels Pakistan with Jazz’. For this reason, a grand launch event was held to not only showcase the show’s …

DUBAI: Dubai Duty Free received two significant awards at the recent Global Traveler – GT Tested Awards with the retail operator winning the “Best Duty-Free Shopping in the World” for the twelfth consecutive year and the “Best Duty-Free Shopping in the Middle East” for the second consecutive year. The awards were held on 12th December at The Peninsula Hotel in …

DUBAI: In a bid to further boost Dubai’s strong investment and trade relations with Spain, the Dubai Investment Development Agency (Dubai FDI), the investment development agency of Dubai Economy (DED), recently held a strategic meeting with major industries and key investors at the Circulo Ecuestre in Barcelona, Spain in collaboration with Senda International Company. The meeting formed part of Dubai …

DUBAI: Royal Stag has partnered with the International Cricket Council (ICC) that further strengthens the brand’s ties with Cricket; the sport loved by more than one billion adult fans the world over. The partnership, which runs through 2023, confirms Royal Stag as official sponsors of cricket’s international events, including the upcoming big-ticket calendar events – the ICC Cricket World Cup, …

MANAMA: Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has announced the launch of new stopover travel packages designed to promote the Kingdom of Bahrain as a tourist destination to its global customer base. The new stopover programme was launched in response to the directives of the Executive Committee, chaired by His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad …

MUSCAT: Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, gathered its entire commercial teams from around the globe together for its Global Commercial Conference held at the Hormuz Grand Muscat Hotel on the 5th and 6th December. Entitled “Winning Together”, the conference treated Oman Air’s commercial teams to two days of interesting and informative presentations, break-out sessions and …

By Irfan Pardesi RAS AL KHAIMAH: “Awafi Heritage Festival” which celebrates the northern emirate’s ethnic and cultural heritage kicked off this Saturday, December 15, 2018, offering visitors a truly authentic experience for all the family. The opening ceremony was attended by Haitham Mattar, CEO of Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority and other VIPs who toured the cultural village and witnessed …

ABU DHABI:  VeChain, a global leading public blockchain platform focusing on enterprise adoption and BIOS Middle East, the UAE’s leading Managed Cloud Provider have signed a MoU to co-market and implement a framework of blockchain-as-a-service and blockchain-enabled cloud services. VeChain’s wide range of blockchain solutions for enterprises comprising of the Internet of Things (IoT) are ripe for major cloud service …

KUWAIT: Kuwait picked up the pace to accomplish further milestones to unleash its economic potential and sustainable growth by building on consolidating the national efforts to achieve the pillars of the National Vision 2035 for “New-Kuwait”, of which was the convening of the second edition of the Kuwait Investment Forum (KIF 2018). Sheikh Dr. Meshaal Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Director General of …

DUBAI: Specialty chemicals supplier Milliken & Co. will again be exhibiting at Arabplast — taking place Jan. 5-8, 2019, in Dubai — where it will showcase how its additives can help address the key challenges confronting today’s plastics processing industry. On Stand 6C150 during the 14th edition of the trade fair at the Dubai World Trade Centre in the UAE, …