Day: March 18, 2025

More than 11,300 new hotel rooms are set to open across Dubai by 2027, with almost 4,620 coming to the market this year, says leading real estate advisory group, Cavendish Maxwell.

Dubai added 4,255 rooms across 19 hotels to its inventory in 2024, representing year-on-year growth of almost 3%. As of December, the city boasted 724 hospitality establishments, with 151,245 keys between them, according to Cavendish Maxwell’s Dubai hospitality sector 2024 market performance report. Hotel inventory will grow by 3.1% this year, with 3.4% growth predicted for 2026. By the end of 2027, Dubai is set to have more than 162,600 rooms across 769 hotels.
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Kempinski Hotels has been recognised as a winner of the 2025 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA), marking the fourth consecutive year the company has received this prestigious accolade. This award recognises organisations that cultivate a workplace culture promoting high levels of employee engagement, well-being, and business performance.
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ICYMI: Newly minted prime minister will sit down with Macron and Starmer but has no immediate plans to meet with Donald Trump

Mark Carney, the new Canadian prime minister, is headed to Paris and London seeking alliances as he deals with Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada’s sovereignty and economy.

Carney is deliberately making his first foreign trip to the capital cities of the two countries that shaped Canada’s early existence. At his swearing-in ceremony on Friday, Carney noted the country was built on the bedrock of three peoples: French, English and Indigenous. He said Canada was fundamentally different from the US and will “never, ever, in any way shape or form, be part of the United States”. Continue reading…
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The Biggs had a few apples and oranges to eat and a few treats for their dog but no other food and none of their medications as they thought it was going to be a short outing.
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As a trade war with the U.S. brews, the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce is calling on the provincial government to loosen rules that hamper B.C. craft distillers.
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