Airline, airport, hotel, destination, visa, and Muslim travel updates from Irhal.
The airline marks Philadelphia as its 14th destination in North America NEW YORK, NY, USA – Qatar Airways has reconnected Doha and Philadelphia with the launch of a daily non-stop flight between Hamad International Airport (DOH) and Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), its 14th destination in North America, which resumed on 1 August 2026.
Read full storyThis summer, Central Shopping Centers invites international visitors to experience the best of shopping, dining, and leisure with Summer Holiday 2026, running from 20 July – 30 September 2026. Created exclusively for international tourists, the campaign offers shopping privileges across Thailand’s five world-class shopping malls: centralwOrld, Central Park…
Read full storyThe Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Jordan Tourism Board, in cooperation with tourism associations, have launched the integrated digital platform "Ahlan Jordan" as part of measures to support the tourism sector and address the impact of regional circumstances on travel activity.
Read full storyflydubai, the Dubai-based carrier, has increased its daily operations between Dubai and Naples and is set to boost its flights to Milan-Bergamo to a double-daily operation from 31 July, enhancing passenger connectivity to Italy.
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – July 28, 2026: The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi has announced that Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, a museum of modern and contemporary art, will open its doors on 11 December 2026 at Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi.
Warner Bros. World™ Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, the region's largest indoor theme park, is inviting guests to place themselves in the hands of one of DC's most iconic Super-Villains, as Kryptonite Collider officially opens.
Malaysia Retains No. 1 Position in Global Muslim Travel Index 2025, Offering GCC Travellers a Summer of Festivals, Culture and Discovery.
The Dubai-based carrier announces the start of daily flights to Aleppo from 20 July, reaffirming its connectivity to opening underserved markets Aleppo becomes the carrier’s second destination in Syria alongside Damascus
What if the most valuable thing you brought home from a trip wasn’t an object, but a story? Northern Thailand is home to dozens of ethnic communities who have carried their identities across mountains and borders for centuries – and many of them welcome curious, respectful visitors.
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) today launched the search for the 7 Contemporary Wonders of the World, a global initiative designed to identify and celebrate the landmarks and buildings created since 1801 that have had the greatest impact on Travel & Tourism, local communities and economic development, and continue to redefine the future of destin…
Luxury travel today is no longer measured by how much you can see in a few days, but by how deeply you can experience a destination. At Le Méridien Phuket Mai Khao Beach Resort, guests are invited to embrace this philosophy through Long Stay Beach Escape, an exclusive package designed for travelers who wish to enjoy more of Phuket's culture, wellness, and f…
Read full storyTwo hotels, three ways to stay, and one summer campaign inviting guests to choose their own scene across Paramount Hotel Midtown and Paramount Hotel Dubai
Read full storySharjah Museums Offer an Integrated Summer Experience Blending Culture, Science, and Discovery for All Community Members
Read full storyNew five-day programme empowers young people to build confidence, resilience and lifelong skills while embracing active lifestyles
Read full storyAcross Five Museums with Interactive Museum Programmes Enriching Children’s Knowledge
Read full storyOceans of Lights Festival returns to SeaWorld Yas Island, Abu Dhabi in its third edition to offer a summer program full of activities and new experiences
Read full storyJuly 2026, Yerevan, Armenia: Armenia has extended its temporary visa-free entry arrangement, keeping the country within easy reach for eligible travellers from across the Gulf for a further year. The arrangement now runs until 1 July 2027.
Read full storyJuly 2026, Yerevan, Armenia: The competent Armenian authorities announced the extension of the temporary decision exempting eligible travelers from GCC countries from prior visa entry for an additional year, making the decision effective until July 1, 2027. This decision aims to facilitate travel procedures and tourism movement and exchange between Armenia and the Arab Gulf region, allowing travelers…
Read full storySet within Khalid Lagoon, the island shows how Sharjah brings art, nature and design into everyday public life.
Read full storyBlending cultural discovery with elevated wellness and leisure experiences, World of Hyatt summer destinations offer GCC travelers seasonal getaways across the GCC, Africa and Europe.
Read full storyAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – June 30, 2026: Yas Waterworld Yas Island, Abu Dhabi has officially been awarded the Guinness World Records™ title for the most waterslides in a waterpark, featuring a record-breaking collection of 55 slides.
Read full storyExperience the Colours of Malaysia at Citrawarna 2026 This Summer
Read full storyGermany is an ideal destination for friends traveling together, thanks to its creative neighborhoods, vibrant markets, street food culture, and stunning natural retreats
Read full storyFollowing the launch of its first collaboration in 2025, the Jacquemus brand returns this summer to the Monte Carlo Beach Club with a new design that reimagines the coastal atmosphere with a contemporary spirit. The design evokes the spirit of 1950s beach clubs, where elegance meets the calm Mediterranean lifestyle.
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April 22- Sharjah has launched air flight service to destinations in Europe over the last 18 months, as the emirate has increased its efforts towards boosting tourism and related sectors. Sharjah’s flagship carrier, Air Arabia worked with the Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA) to begin flight service to Greece and Ukraine. The goal of the new flights was to attract more tourists and…
April 22- French hospitality group Accor reported better than expected first quarter sales of €1.66 billion (Dh8.19bn) because business conditions at its midscale and upscale brands improved. Accor, the fourth largest hotel group in the world, said the trend in April was “rather positive.” Occupancy rates at Accor’s midscale and upscale hotels increased and stabilized at its budget hotels in Europe. The…
April 22- A top official with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said it will probably take at least three years for the global airline industry to recover from disruption caused by volcanic eruptions in southern Iceland, which started on April 14th. IATA estimates that the crisis, which has grounded much of the airline industry, will cost airlines over $1.7 billion (Dh 6.24 billion) by the sixth…
April 22- Dubai airport officials are looking to revise the master plan for Al Maktoum International Airport, thus changing the design, cost and completion date of what is said to be the world’s largest airport. The airport in Jebel Ali, said officials, will have five runways and will handle 160 million passengers a year. Speaking on the sidelines of the orientation ceremony of the Airport Show 2010 (starts on…
The Foreign Minister of UAE, Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has announced in the Federal National Council that the Emirates will review its visa-on-arrival policy to citizens of 34 countries. "The review of this issue will benefit the UAE and many other countries… and provides an opportunity to reconsider the political and consular procedures and demand provision of beforehand visas,” he said. The…
April 22- The Managing Director of Iran Airports Company (IAC), Mohsen Esmaeeli, has said the Iran’s going to enhance airport-related cooperation with Syria, which forms an integral part of his organization’s agenda. "Tehran is prepared to make available its technical might for building airports and related equipment to Damascus," added Esmaeeli during a meeting with Syrian Deputy Transportation Minister, Mahmoud…
April 22- Scores of stranded passengers finally managed to catch a flight home after the airspace across Europe was reopened after a week-long suspension. Airlines across the world were forced to suspend their flights after a volcano in Iceland eruption causing a massive ash cloud to form over most of the continent. On Tuesday, the British authorities announced that the country’s airspace was open followed by…
April 22- The tenth Airport Show is all set to begin from April 25, 2010. The show is the only one of its kind in the region that focuses on airport construction, operations, technology and services -- all opportunities worth AED235 billion (US$64 billion). The show will run till April 27 at the Dubai Airport Expo under the patronage of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority (DCAA). This year, there are more than…
April 22- Bahrain Air, Bahrain's budget carrier, start four flights a week to Dammam in June, said Majeed Maarij, regional manager of the airline for the GCC, Yemen and Iran, during a road show in Jeddah on Monday. Currently, the airline flies to Jeddah daily and six times a week to Riyadh. The airline, which started operations in February 2007, is flying to 21 destinations currently which include Dhaka and…
April 22- Lawyers on Wednesday said that several European airlines are likely to sue government agencies for suspending flights for about a week because of safety concerns. This, they said, is a possibility if their own countries do not compensate the carriers for the losses incurred. According to the International Air Traffic Authority (IATA), airlines have lost about $1.7 billion owing to flight suspension. As…
Kuwait Airways resumed its flights London yesterday at 1400 local time (1100 GMT) while the first British Airways flight from London will land in Kuwait at 0630 local time (0330 GMT) today. All flights to most European destinations were cancelled due to the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud.
April 22- Emirates Airline resumed its flights to some of the major airports in UK including Heathrow, Gatwick, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow. The resumption of flights will start after a week of suspensions due to the Iceland volcanic eruption and resulting ash cloud lingering over Europe. "We are hoping to make some good progress today in helping the many passengers who have been held up by the…
April 22- The Qatari Diar Real Estate Company and the Government of Cyprus have signed an agreement for the development of a hotel, office and residential complex in Cyprian capital, Nicosia. The project will be made at a cost of over $150 million, said Mohmmed bin Ali Al Hedfa, Group Chief Executive Officer of Qatari Diar. In the first phase, a five-star hotel will be made while the second phase will comprise…
April 22- The Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA) organized a road show from April 14 to April 20 in several Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in a bid to promote tourism in Sharjah. The road show destinations included included Doha, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia (Dammam, Riyadh and Jeddah). The delegation included companies such as the Sharjah Millennium Hotel, Golden Tulip…
April 22- Dubai-based Pearl Investment Group announced on Tuesday that it is looking to invest in 10 more hotels in the Gulf region as well as India -- an estimated investment of Dh500 million -- over the next five years. The group already operates the Flora Hotel chain in Dubai and also plans to set up hotels in Makkah and Madinah. Talking about the group’s investment plans, V. A. Hassan, Vice Chairman of…
April 22- Hyatt Hotels & Resorts announced on Monday that the Park Hyatt Jeddah-Marina Club and Spa has been opened to the public. Located along the Jeddah Corniche, the five-star hotel overlooks the Red Sea and King Fahd Fountain, the tallest in the world. The hotel is located in the heart of the city, the Al-Hamra district at the Equestrian Club, Jeddah. The Park Hyatt, Jeddah, has been designed by French…
April 21- The President of Emirates Airline, Tim Clark, said on Tuesday that 20 per cent of the airline's fleet is still grounded in Dubai as more flights were cancelled. "All the German flights that were going off this morning have had to be rerouted to Vienna and Zurich," Clark said. Flights to Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf had to be flown to Vienna or Zurich. However, Emirates will not increase…
April 21-Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) has registered a 13.8 per cent increase in passenger traffic, according to the figures released for the first quarter as compared to the same period last year. Abu Dhabi International Airport has also witnessed an 22.2 per cent increase in cargo. Meanwhile, the top top city destinations from Abu Dhabi in the first quarter were Bangkok, London, Doha, Manila and Bahrain;…
April 21- Dubai airport will waive up to Dh1 million in revenues earned from the aircraft parking fees for the first five days of volcanic eruption flight cancellations, said the Dubai International Airport on Tuesday. Parking is free for the first three hours of landing, after which Dh300 is charged for the first charging hour and then Dh550 per each additional hour. "We will be granting airlines exemption from…
April 21- Dubai Airports said on Tuesday that passengers are strongly advised to not got to the airport until and unless they have confirmed their flights with their airline. Several contingency plans along with the deployment of extra staff are in place at the airport to facilitate stranded passengers, the authority said. In this regard, various airlines are regularly updating their websites. Meanwhile, the…
April 21- Royal Air Maroc (Morocco) has finally started some of its flights to Europe that remained suspended for almost a week, it was learnt on Monday. According to a statement released on Monday, flights to Barcelona and Marseille, Bordeaux and Toulouse (France) will resume. Meanwhile, Air Algerie also resumed flights to and from Marseille, Toulouse, Rome, Barcelona and Beijing, as did Tunisian national air…
April 21- Qatari Civil Aviation Authority has said that volcanic ash cloud is unlikely to hover all the way to the Middle East but if the eruptions continue, the cloud just may come to the region. In a statement released yesterday, the authority said that even if the cloud travels all the way to the Gulf region, the density will be much lower. Volcanic ash clouds comprise of dust, volcanic gases and silicate…
Dubai’s beach hotels are doing booming business, an encouraging sign that suggest that the hospitality industry in the region may be on the road to recovery, said analysts in a report published by the firm Jones Lang LaSalle. hotels across the UAE suffered great losses in 2009 owing to declines in occupancy given the global financial crisis. The hotels and tourism industry accounted for 19 per cent of Dubai’s…
The Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC), Abu Dhabi, has announced that all of its 55 projects, at an estimated cost of Dh120 billion, will be completed on time. The company said that already, several projects have been delivered on time. "So far, we are in a good position and I don't think we will need to sell bonds this year," Ali Al Hamadi, Special Projects Director, TDIC, said on the…
