Sofia Hosts Meeting of European Committee of Tourist Agencies' Associations
The European Commission is focused on providing equal business rights to all travel agents and high level of consumer protection, said Meglena Kuneva, Bulgaria's European Commissioner on Consumers' Protection at the 97th meeting of the European Committee of Tourist Agencies' Associations held in SofiaTuesday. In the last twenty years different European documents have regulated the [...]
Outlet centers boom in Turkey
Turkey surpasses European countries with its investments in outlet centers, in which manufacturers sell their products directly to the public through their own stores. Turkey ranks second among European countries right after the United Kingdom, with 19 outlet centers with 382,781 square meters leasable area. In the U.K. there are some 29 outlet centers with [...]
Ras al Khaimah plans educational city
Ras al Khaimah is planning to set up an educational city in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. The project is likely to come up in the same area that was earlier earmarked for a Science City, which was planned to have been built by a multi national consortium comprising Jurong International Group of Singapore. In [...]
FIFA selects Dubai for 2009 and 2010 cup
The United Arab Emirates have taken the World Cup football for clubs away from Japan. The Executive Commission of the Fifa has decided that the tournament which replaces the Intercontinental Cup will be played in Dubai in 2009 and 2010, in 2011 and 2012 it will return to Japan. The other candidate, Australia, was discarded [...]
India top trade destination for Dubai
India has emerged as Dubai's top trade partner, with the country heading the list of import and export destinations from the latter in the first quarter of 2008. India had a share of 13.14 per cent of the total imports from the emirate worth AED 12.6 billion (1 AED = .272 USD) while 45.7 per [...]