Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai welcomed 4.75 million international overnight visitors in the first quarter of 2019, posting over two percent increase in tourism volumes compared to the same period last year according to the latest data released by Dubai’s Department of Tourism & Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism). Steadily picking up from a stable 2018 performance, Dubai’s tourism sector saw ...

Dubai / WAM The world is better when we act together: that’s the unifying message being passed, volleyed and headed around the world by Expo 2020 global ambassador Lionel Messi and shared in a new video-led campaign. The 60-second film shows the world-famous footballer and people around the planet connecting through the universal language of football as they keep the ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s economic growth slowed in the first quarter amid a global slowdown that hurt the nation’s exports. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced in the economy, rose 5.07 percent in the first quarter from a year ago, lower than the 5.2 percent median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists. Compared with the previous ...