This edition provides a colourful glimpse of some of the opportunities and challenges our clients throughout the Middle East region are working through in this rapidly growing sector.

Travel companies have been exploring use cases of AI or artificial intelligence for years now. Be it for product and content recommendations in real-time or conversational interfaces or removing friction and rather delivering a consistent experience across various touchpoints, travel suppliers are gradually coming to grips with the potential of AI and machine learning, which is a subset of AI that involves actually learning from, rather than...

Uruguay Week in China-Beijing

Team USA won their first soccer World Cup title in 1991. They defeated Norway 2 to 1 to win the Soccer World Cup in Guangzhou, China.

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Passenger Ferries Market By Type (Monohull, Multihull) By Application (Commercial, Individual) And Region – Global Forecast 2026, which offers a holistic view of the global passenger ferries market through systematic segmentation that covers every aspect of the target market. The first five-year cumulative revenue (2019–2023) is projected to be over US$ 14.5 Bn, which is estimated to increase moderately over the latter part of the five-year...

Uruguay National Day at the International Horticultural Exhibition Beijing 2019

As well as more direct services from some of China’s secondary cities, it seems that Chinese travellers are going further afield in search of adventure and new experiences. Analysis of OAG’s Traffic Analyser data found that there are 15 countries which have seen passenger growth of more than 20% in February 2019 compared to February 2018.

Thailand is considering a pilot scheme to allow Chinese tourists visa-free entry into the country to boost tourism. Pipat Ratchakitprakarn, the country’s tourism minister, told Prachachat Business newspaper last week that he was prepared to introduce visa-free travel for Indian tourists as well as Chinese visitors.

Morocco’s phosphate industry could capture 80%-90% of global demand by 2030, a huge boost to economic and investment growth, according to industry experts. But the issue of sovereignty in Western Sahara remains a political hurdle to full exploitation of the resource.