The company said it aims to capture five percent of the Indian travel market by 2027
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UAE-based business travel platform Tumodo set to enter Saudi Arabia; eyes 5% market share in 2 years
The startup aims to disrupt the kingdom’s travel market through its AI-based innovative platform helping businesses to achieve huge savings on their travel costs
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Dwelling in the past, living in the future
The Dubai-based proptech startup has caught the attention of investors and generated the largest-ever seed round in the Middle East when it raised $7.75 million
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Boom in UAE-India air traffic with 43% jump in bookings since Sept
Surprisingly, airfares between India and the UAE – one of the cash cow sectors for carriers from both countries – is seeing a softening trend with a 10 percent drop since beginning of October, despite the travel demand spike, industry insiders said
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Dubai-India airfares set to surge further after grounding of Jet Airways
The upcoming holiday period in India will also put more pressure on demand for flights
GCC tourism prospects
Gulf’s online travel market forecast to grow to $15bn by 2023
GCC e-travel market is projected to grow by 20% during the period 2019-23, well above the conventional travel market
Air Travelers
Skyscanner sees business soar in Middle East despite ‘slower’ growth
Skyscanner has no plans to invest directly in the Middle East market, according to its senior director of strategic partnerships Hugh Aitken
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Indian travellers favour short-stays, impromptu trips – survey
Online travel and stay aggregator Cleartrip says half of Indian travellers booked flights seven days or less in advance
Dubai
Indian tourists to favour Dubai, Thailand and Singapore in 2019
Manama, Oman, Doha and Kuwait city are also coming up as big favourites for Indian travellers of late
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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
Almosafer
Travel platform Almosafer sees surge in Saudi visitors to London
The Saudi homegrown travel platform found that Saudi tourists stay an average of seven nights in the British capital
bd4travel
Dubai’s dnata acquires European AI-tech firm
Dubai air services provider buys majority stake in bd4travel, which provides AI solutions to online travel agencies
Cleartrip
Travel-related debit card transactions spike 536% in Saudi Arabia
Statistics from Cleartrip and Flyin show that despite the enormous growth of debit card transactions, credit cards remain the preferred method of payment for Saudi customers
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
Cleartrip
Mobile travel bookings spike sharply in the GCC
Oman had the highest rate of mobile booking penetration, with 35 percent of all transactions made on mobile devices
Dubai
Expanding horizons with travel tech: Tajawal.com’s Muhammad Chbib
Lessons from Leaders: By driving his company to generate $500m in net sales in less than three years Tajawal.com’s founder and CEO Muhammad Chbib is at the heart of the online travel booking revolution
Brand View
Al Tayyar strategic online business unit’s Q2 results a record success
Brand View: Thanks to key events such as FIFA World Cup, Eid Al Fitr and the summer travel booking season, the platforms have witnessed a phenomenal growth in the past few months