COVID-19 days: Long-stays are the only hope now for UAE hotels

Dubai: Hotels in the UAE will have to rely on bookings from UAE and Gulf residents to see them through summer… if the COVID-19 spread settles before that. Because most hotel operators are not convinced that leisure and business travel from outside the region will materialize in the next two three months. “Nothing will recover […]

COVID-19 reality: Singapore still has use for cruise ships

Singapore City: With cruise ships around the world being idled after hundreds of infections occurred during their voyages, they might have found a new purpose in Singapore. The city-state is studying using cruise ships to temporarily house foreign workers who have recovered from the coronavirus and tested negative, as it tries to limit the spread […]

COVID-19 response: UAE developers start on job, salary cuts

Dubai: The layoffs and salary slashes are starting to gather momentum in the UAE’s real estate space, with personnel in the sales department facing the worst of it. Another category that is seeing a lot of personnel cuts is the hospitality division of leading developers in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Organsiations are laying off 20-30 […]