In the United Arab Emirates, Chairman of the Tourism Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Akkulov met with Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organisation (UN Tourism) Shaikha Nasser Al Nuwais. During the meeting, Uzbekistan and UN Tourism signed an agreement on the organisation of the official opening ceremony of the International Year of Sustainable and Resilient Tourism...

Spanish Tourist Office in the UK announced the appointment of José Manuel de Juan González as the new Director and Isabel Alonso Piñar as the new Deputy Director in London, who take over from Manuel Butler and Pedro Medina respectively. González joins the London office following a distinguished career with Turespaña. He has previously headed Turespaña’s overseas offices in New York...

Germany as a tourist destination continues to show positive growth in international tourism: at the start of the peak holiday season in July, the number of overnight stays by foreign visitors in Germany increased by 3.2% year-on-year to 10.8 million, according to provisional figures from the Federal Statistical Office, against a backdrop of market volatility...

Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority (MTPA) deepens its engagement with India through a four-city initiative across Pune, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad, its third marketing operation in the country since January 2026, reaffirming the country’s importance as a key tourism market and strengthening the longstanding cultural and people-to-people ties between Mauritius and India.

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) warns that plans to give mayors in England the power to impose uncapped overnight visitor levies risk making the UK less competitive as a global destination, with higher costs threatening to divert visitors, spending, and future investment to competing markets...

Yousuf Khalaf Al Mujaizi, Assistant Director of Business Development, Tourism Promotion Directorate, Ministry of Heritage and Tourism, Oman, said resilience comes from having a destination proposition that is genuine, differentiated and built for the long term.

The Department of Tourism, Ministry of Industry, Commerce & Employment, Kingdom of Bhutan, has appointed BlinkBrand Solutions as its official Public Relation and Sales Representative for the Indian and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) markets.

The Representative Office of Azerbaijan Tourism Board (ATB) in Türkiye hosted an exclusive Golf Tourism Networking Event in collaboration with “Dreamland Golf Club” and the Azerbaijan National Golf Club in Istanbul on September 7. The event gathered leading professionals from Türkiye’s golf tourism industry, golf media and a representative of the Turkish Golf Federation...

Dave Goodger, Managing Director, EMEA, Tourism Economics, an Oxford Economics company, revealed that the Kingdom’s international leisure travel, measured by overnight arrivals, is forecast to grow more than three times faster than the global average of 30% over the five-year period, and ahead of the Middle East at 64%.

As part of executing the Head of State's instructions, the Government is implementing a comprehensive set of systemic measures to modernise resort areas, stimulate investment, and expand transport accessibility. By the end of 2025, the sector's total contribution to the economy reached 5 trillion KZT, and the number of employed exceeded 600 thousand people.