Dubai

With 89,149,387 passengers (+11TP3Q), Dubai Airport maintained its world leadership in international traffic in 2018 for the fifth consecutive year. On average, the Dubai hub welcomed 7.4 million passengers per month, with peaks in excess of 8 million recorded during the summer, in July and...

Over the last few years, Emirates has focused particularly on improving its First and Business Class products. In First Class, the airline has consolidated its reputation with suites and in particular the possibility of taking a shower during the flight, a unique service in air transport until now. The airline has just...

In the 1950s and 1960s, it was one of the best hotels in the whole of the Soviet Union, where the first cocktails were served in the country. Hotel Riga, the Latvian capital's meeting place for the intelligentsia, was rebuilt in the 1950s after being totally demolished during the Second World War, and has now entered a new era...

Dubai airport is due to install an innovative biometric identification system in Terminal 3 from next summer. Passengers will pass through a tunnel equipped with around 80 cameras hidden behind screens. The screens will immerse the passenger in a virtual aquarium, with moving fish to catch the traveller's eye...

We will have to wait a little longer to walk the corridors of the Sofitel Dubai Wafi, which is due to open in early 2019. But the contract between the AccorHotels group and property developer MKM Commercial Holdings LLC has been signed, paving the way for a major project for the Sofitel brand. "We are delighted...

A Hilton hotel is expected in Dubai. But not a new establishment from the Hilton Worldwide group, which already has six hotels in the emirate. It is a hotel designed by Paris Hilton! The very media-savvy granddaughter of the hotel group's founder has told the LA Times that she wants to extend her...

A city within a city, with an office complex, residences, a sandy beach, a hydrotherapy centre and the blue ripples of its pools in the middle of West Bay, Doha's new 'place to be', a chic and trendy business district that was still a desert four years ago...

Qatar: Oil windfall Established in 1971, like the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, a nation barely 40 years old, already has the second highest GDP per capita in the world. Above all, it has one of the fastest-growing economies in the region. And in Doha, it shows. Here, a tower designed by Jean Nouvel is covered...