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Total number of guests at four and five-star hotels witnessed an increase of 22.7 per cent by the end of the first quarter of 2014, totalling 198,383 guest compared with 161,685 guest during the same period in 2013.

The Duqm Airport may become operational with a soft launch later this year ahead of full-fledged commercial operations in 2016. Lee Chee Khian, CEO, Special Economic Zone Authority in Duqm (SEZAD).

Total number of guests at four and five star hotels increased by 22.7 per cent in the first quarter of 2014 to 198,383 guests, compared with 161,685 guests during the same period in 2013.

Dubai International is expecting more than 70 million passengers to travel through the airport this year despite the nearly three month cut to capacity that is underway owing to runway repairs.

Nakheel, a Dubai-based developer, said on Sunday that it signed a management agreement with UK-based Premier Inn for its hotel at Ibn Battuta Mall.

Officials from member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) reiterated at the Arabian Travel Market 2014 held in Dubai last week that the ten-country bloc wants to create a common visa valid for all member states as early as 2015.