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Saudi Arabia is planning to start issuing tourist visa from next year in its drive to open the country to foreign investment, reports say. “Hopefully in 2018,” said Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, head of the Saudi Commission for Read more
Plagued by security fears following an attempted coup and a series of terrorist attacks, Turkey saw its tourism revenues dwindle to $22.1 billion dollars, down from $31 billion in 2015. The warming of ties between Turkey and Russia has resulted Read more
The Kuwaiti government will release $160 billion for the next 20 years for the development of resorts on its islands of Boubyan, Warba, Failaka, Maskan and Aouha, reports say. The ambitious project will, according to local reports, turn the five Read more
Saudi Arabia’s national oil company Aramco, weighing billions of dollars, will open a tourism training centre to meet the kingdom’s plans to diversify its oil-based economy. The future centre will receive 5,000 Saudi males and females who will undergo a Read more
Israel’s counterterrorism bureau has called on Israelis to leave Egypt because of a terrorist threat “in the immediate future.” The government does not have “specific warnings” of areas that could be targeted but the head of the counterterrorism bureau, Eitan Read more
Tunisian authorities look forward to attracting 10 million tourists by 2020 and have set a new ambitious strategy to reach this goal. The plan seeks to double tourism revenues which reached $1 billion last year. According to Tunisian tourism ministry, Read more
Tourism is on the rise in Egypt signaling that the once paralyzed sector could be on the verge of recovery according to spokeswoman of the Tourism Ministry Omaima al-Husseini. She said there is “an increase in the number of tourists” Read more
A year after Russian flights to Egypt were suspended in response to a fatal crash in Sinai, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s office on Thursday said Russia would resume its flights to the North African nation soon. The announcement follows Read more
King Mohammed VI of Morocco chaired Tuesday at the Royal Palace in Casablanca, the first meeting on the giant gas pipeline project that will go up from Nigeria to Morocco via several West African countries. This landmark project, the biggest Read more
King Mohammed VI, who started Sunday a historic visit to Tanzania within the frame of a tour in East Africa, had Monday in Dar es Salaam, a private meeting with President John Pombe Magufuli. The two African leaders co-chaired, the Read more