UAE residents are searching for staycation ideas to celebrate New Year in the country, says Expedia
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Expedia reveals top 2025 travel trends for UAE and global tourists
The platform’s destinations of the year are near popular hotspots, making them ideal day trips while also being attractive as main attractions
Expedia
UAE travel hacks, tips and trends in 2024: busiest days, cheapest time to book, what time of day to fly, top destinations and more expert advice
UAE travellers can save money, avoid crowds and get insider secrets from Expedia travel experts
Chinese tourists UAE
Chinese tourists to the Gulf set to hit 2.9m by 2022
Expedia Group says significant percentage of GCC-bound Chinese tourists are set to pick the UAE and Dubai
AccorHotels
Loyalty programmes help hotels take back bookings from OTAs, says Accor CEO
Airbnb ‘less impactful’ on hotels than OTAs, focuses on secondary cities compared to capital cities, says Sebastien Bazin
Alphabet
Google makes new push to bolster travel-related searches
Google will launch a more unified travel product to integrate flight and hotel search functions, while organising people’s travel plans and saving research
Abu dhabi tourism
Why European love affair with the UAE is on the rise
Expedia data shows the number of travellers visiting the UAE from Europe is on the increase
BookedHappy
Entrepreneur of the Week: BookedHappy’s Charlotte Gossage
Charlotte Gossage aims to bring business back to hotels through deals that refer customers to the hotels’ own websites to enable direct bookings
BookedHappy
Online travel agencies ‘taking advantage’ of hotels, says Dubai start-up
BookedHappy aims to bring some business back to hotels through direct bookings, says founder Charlotte Gossage
digital marketplace
Why Wego’s Middle East leap was its best decision yet
Travel search engine Wego is finally ‘hitting its stride’ largely led by a booming MENA travel market, according to co-founder and CEO Ross Veitch
Airbnb
Dubai start-up Frank Porter to triple growth by end of 2018
Frank Porter manages private properties available for short term rent on home sharing channels such as Airbnb, Booking.com, TripAdvisor, Expedia and HomeAway
Abu Dhabi
Booking platform aims to ‘give business back to hotels’ with 0% commission model
Bidroom currently operates worldwide with over 120,000 hotels in cities including Dubai and Abu Dhabi