Middle East

After Air France, which made its return to Tehran official last December, it is now British Airways' turn to unveil its ambitions for the Iranian capital. In July, the airline will resume operations from Heathrow Terminal 5, with six flights a week. The route will rapidly adopt a...

Six years after the launch of the Paris-Muscat route, Oman Air is expanding its offer to the French market with the addition of a new weekly rotation. From 25 October, the national airline of the Sultanate of Oman will operate five flights a week to and from Paris-CDG airport. [gallery exclude="42201"]

The Mövenpick Hotel Riyadh is the hotel group's tenth representative in Saudi Arabia, and therefore its first in the capital, Riyadh. Located around thirty minutes from the international airport, it is expected to attract a business travel clientele thanks to its location in the heart of the King Fahad Road business district,...

The new Steigenberger Hotel Business Bay Dubai will soon be taking up residence just a stone's throw from the famous Burj Khalifa, with a total of 365 rooms and suites. The five-star hotel - and as many restaurants - will feature a conference centre, with meeting rooms for a total capacity of 470 people, as well as a meeting room, a meeting room and a...

In its own way, Etihad Airways has just started the new school year several weeks early. The airline has just inaugurated its new Premium lounge in Terminal 1 at Abu Dhabi airport. In addition to Etihad Airways First and Business Class passengers, Etihad Guest Platinum members and Etihad Guest...

On 3 August, Oman Air celebrated the completion of renovation work on its lounge, which began at the start of the year. The aim of the makeover was to refresh and enlarge the business lounge, which was inaugurated five years ago. The lounge can now accommodate around a hundred more business travellers, and has been equipped with a spa area...

Hotel Indigo Dubai The Sustainable City (TSC) is due to open its doors in the first half of 2017. And to make a good impression in this new TSC focused on sustainable development, the managers of the IHG group have - logically - chosen solar energy. The entire energy needs of the 117-room building...

"Our new lounge (...) sets new standards in airport luxury and (...) will far exceed the expectations of our passengers": on the occasion of the opening of the new Al Mourjan lounge, Qatar Airways Group CEO Akbar Al Baker did not hesitate to set the bar very high. And to...

Muscat is here. Exactly as Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al-Said wanted it to be from the start of his reign 43 years ago, i.e. entirely white - although sand is permitted - and very low, rarely higher than five storeys. As in the Muttrah district, otherwise known as the...

DIY" ("Do It Yourself") is all the rage, including in the world of business travel. A year after Iberia innovated last summer with MyBagTag, Qatar Airways is importing the home baggage identification system to the Middle East. The My Q-Tag system allows passengers to go directly to the baggage drop-off counter at the airport...

With 181 rooms, 13 suites and 165 flats, including 41 studios, the arrival of the DoubleTree by Hilton brand opens up new prospects for business travellers from all over the world who flock to Dubai every year. Business travellers will also be able to take advantage of the three meeting rooms integrated into the DoubleTree by Hilton Dubai - Al Barsha,...

With a long-standing presence in the Kingdom of Bahrain, where the Sheraton Bahrain Hotel first opened its doors in 1981, the Starwood group will soon be giving fresh impetus to its development strategy. The agreement with Majid Al Futtaim Properties made official on 1 May is set to lead to the inauguration of two top-of-the-range establishments in the heart of the...

A vase-shaped tower, another pointed, a third twisted... This is the landscape that appears on the horizon as the taxi approaches Doha's West Bay, conquered by the vertical. Barely ten years ago, it was still flat, it seems. Clearly, we haven't wasted any time...

It took almost 80 years for the building formerly occupied by the Palace Hotel to once again welcome travellers from all over the world. All that remains of that era is the Ottoman façade, the pride of the new Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem. And a strategic location between the Old City and modern Jerusalem. The hotel...

We will have to wait until the second quarter of 2015 to see the Radisson Blu Hotel, Jeddah Al Salamah open its doors some ten kilometres from King Abdulaziz International Airport, in the Al Salamah district. It will then add 142 rooms to the Saudi portfolio of the Carlson Rezidor group - the group already has six hotels in...

The service to Kabul's Khwaja Rawash Airport will be operated daily by Airbus A340-500 equipped with 12 seats in first class, 42 seats in business class and 204 in economy class. Departures from Dubai, which start on 4 December 2013, are set for 9.50am, with an arrival in the Afghan capital at 1.15pm. The...

Oman Air has celebrated the opening of its new check-in lounge reserved for Business and First Class passengers at Muscat International Airport. The space is entirely private, including a dedicated check-in service and baggage and security screening. [gallery exclude="32967"]

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...