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  ABU DHABI / WAM Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, appointed UAE nationals as Airport Managers in South Korea, Seychelles, and Saudi Arabia. This brings to eight the number of Etihad Airways’ Emirati Airport Managers across the world. Fatima Al Hashemi has been appointed Airport Manager for Incheon, South Korea (ICN). Yousuf Mohammed has been ...

  OUR CORRESPONDENT / Emirates Business Cyber threats have emerged as one of the main maladies that UAE’s enterprises are facing at this moment. Not only IT companies but also conventional industries like retail, logistics and even manufacturing are bearing the brunt of cyber threats. In one of its recent cyber security poll, DarkMatter, a leading IT-giant of the region, ...

  ALKESH SHARMA / Emirates Business Enthused with many positive stimuli, the Muslim Travel market is estimated to grow to 150 million visitors by 2020 with an expenditure projected to surge to $200 million. Travel industry pundits predict that the whopping growth of Muslim travel market is significantly contributing to the enhanced demand from this segment in other sectors including ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The World Environment Day was marked by the introduction of an online sustainability self-assessment tool. The tool by Dubai Carbon aims to enable entities to understand their current sustainability efforts, economically, socially and environmentally, and from there, use this knowledge to benchmark against peers and achieve better environmental credentials. It covers a multitude of sectors and ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) recently organised an educational workshop dedicated to work towards both understanding and implementation of the Fourth Generation of the Government Excellence System. This is in line with His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice-President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai’s vision to Excellency in ...

  ALKESH SHARMA / Emirates Business The Middle East remains a key market for the growth of global yacht industry. According to well-placed survey reports, nearly 55 percent of region’s ultra-wealthy buy superyachts, and it is the highest proportion of any global market. “The 55 percent ‘propensity to buy’ for the Middle East is the highest of all regions,” said ...

  RITIKA SHARMA / Emirates Business As the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) industry takes center-stage in the economy of the UAE, entrepreneurs are looking for fresh territories to venture into and start their businesses. According to a recent report that accessed the industries explored by budding entrepreneurs in the GCC region, Finance and Technology (Fintech) and e-commerce have emerged ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) is hosting its largest ever group of travel trade professionals from Africa, during a six-day familiarisation trip aimed at positioning Dubai as a leading destination of choice. The familiarisation trip, which ends on June 7, has given over 300 senior management executives from 12 African countries ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Within the framework of strengthening cooperation links with educational entities in the UAE, the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) in order to develop qualified national human resources to work in the space science and technology sector. The MoU was signed by ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the region, launched its sunglasses for labourers campaign this summer for the second consecutive year. Working in partnership with La Moda Sunglasses and the Smartlife Foundation, Emirates NBD staff volunteers will collect and distribute over 2,000 new and donated sunglasses to Dubai labourers during the holy month of ...