Saudi Arabia

TDF Grow Accelerator Programme celebrates the graduation of first cohort

Saudi Arabia’s national enabler of the tourism sector, the Tourism Development Fund (TDF), has celebrated the first cohort of the...

News • 28 August, 2024

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Lebanon

Jedo acquires Jump-in App to penetrate Saudi market

Lebanon-founded and Netherlands-based travel app Jedo has acquired the Saudi app Jump-in for an unknown amount. Founded in 2022 by...

News • 28 December, 2023

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U.A.E

New tourism incubator KUBE Ventures launches in UAE

UAE-based Michael Levie and David Keen have together launched KUBE Ventures, a hospitality and tourism-focused incubator. The KUBE...

News • 21 September, 2021

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Regional

Is there hope for startups in the tourism sector?

The accelerating pace of vaccination efforts worldwide has led to encouraging signs of recovery in the tourism industry, but as the virus...

Dunya Hassanein • 16 September, 2021

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U.A.E

Alef Hospitality launches innovation lab

Alef Hospitality has launched a hotel innovation lab for UAE-based startups working in the tourism, travel and hospitality...

News • 23 August, 2021

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Jordan

Jordan Tourism Board, Venture X launch tourism startup accelerator

Source: Trade Arabia The Jordan Tourism Board (JTB) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Venture X to create a strategic...

News • 04 February, 2021

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U.A.E

Four startups from the travel and tourism industry won Intelak’s third cohort

Four Dubai-based startups aiming at transforming the aviation, travel, and tourism industries graduated on April 30 from the...

Staff writer • 01 May, 2018

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U.A.E

Abu Dhabi's Fikra Labs accelerator selects 12 finalists, embraces hospitality innovation

Weeks after announcing Fikra Labs, an acceleration programme for the travel and tourism industries in Abu Dhabi, 32 startups out of 200...

Reine Farhat • 05 April, 2018

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U.A.E

Abu Dhabi is getting ready for an innovation-loaded takeoff

This article is a crosspost from Fikra Labs. If it wasn’t for all the great aviation innovations that the world...

Reine Farhat • 18 February, 2018

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U.A.E

How is Abu Dhabi getting ready to become a world-class tourist destination

This article is a crosspost from Fikra Labs.   In 2016, the number of hotel guests in Abu Dhabi reached 4.4 million, signaling...

Reine Farhat • 11 February, 2018

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U.A.E

Announcing Fikra Labs, entrepreneurs’ ticket for innovation in world-class travel and tourism

Innovation is often the ultimate differentiator between leaders and followers. Today’s world is quickly adapting to whatever...

Staff writer • 06 February, 2018

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Regional

Great potential, more work in store for the MENA’s travel tech sector

At GITEX 2017, Dubai Airport Authority revealed a virtual aquarium tunnel. As you walked through the tunnel, consumed by glimpses of...

Archana Menon • 24 October, 2017

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Regional

This is why hotels need to start working with startups [Video]

Technology is disrupting all sectors and hotels are not an exception to that global trend. According to Deloitte’s 2017 travel and...

Staff writer • 05 October, 2017

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Regional

Tech startups are disrupting the service sector [Video]

Press CC for Arabic subtitles. Entrepreneurs are closer to the trends, and are even setting some. They are also able to cater more...

Staff writer • 28 September, 2017

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Tunisia

Cyberesa improves e-tourism in Tunisia

Despite the regional instability and tourism shakiness, Tunisian e-tourism is actually witnessing bright days and is not affected by the...

Maya Rahal • 28 May, 2017

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Maghreb

One guest at a time: how a newly launched hotel aims to boost Tunis’ medina

Tucked away in one of the small alleys of Tunisian capital Tunis’ old town, the medina, you find the seven-room boutique hotel Dar B...

Christine Petré • 22 April, 2015

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Lessons in branding from the UAE

This article has been cross posted with Wharton@Knowledge. Tucked away in the northernmost part of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Ras...

Knowledge @Wharton • 06 August, 2014

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Can AskNative save Egypt's tourism industry?

AskNative, a tourism service that works like a social network, is up against serious odds in Egypt, where both tourism and e-commerce are...

Eman Mostafa • 26 December, 2013

AskNative Tourism Egypt

How two companies innovated to resuscitate tourism in Tunisia and Morocco

Over the past few decades, tourism has been an increasingly important source of revenue for both Morocco and Tunisia. Both countries are...

Aline Mayard • 12 May, 2013

Tourism

Saudi Arabia's Untapped Tourism Opportunity

When we think of tourism in the Arab world, we usually first imagine the Egyptian pyramids, the lavish resorts of Dubai, the museums of...

Ahmed Al Majid • 05 May, 2013

Tourism Saudi Arabia

Will this online tourism guide flourish in Gaza? [Wamda TV]

[Arabic] Launched by Palestinian entrepreneur Mohannad Al Nounou in Gaza in early 2012, online tourism and activity guide Fos7a offers an ...

Mariam Hamed • 25 June, 2013

Tourism