Bangkok has topped the MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index for the highest number of visitors — but it’s Dubai where the cashed-up tourists are going.
According to MasterCard, visitors stayed in Bangkok an average of 4.7 nights and spend US$173 per day during calendar 2017. The capital of Thailand attracts an average of 20 million overnight visitors in the year.
Continue reading Bangkok and Dubai: a tale of two top tourist citiesQantas has slowly but surely been unveiling a new strategy for its big-ticket flights from Australia.
On top of its announced aim to offer ultra-long-haul flights from Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, the Flying Kangaroo is preparingto redirect its flagship QF Flight 1 to London back via Singapore, rather than Dubai, which has been the single stopover for the past few years.
Continue reading The Flying Kangaroo jumps in a different direction
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I’ve mentioned here before that I’ve become a regular contributor to Quora.com, and that 
my answers to questions on travel are gaining a small amount of attention.
Well, in the past few days, one of them has gone through the roof. There have been tens of thousands of engagements with my answer to this question: Is it okay to stay in a hotel with a fiancée for a vacation in Abu Dhabi?
Continue reading Tourism and taboo topics in the Middle East
The United Kingdom has changed its travel advice for Oman, and it’s worth knowing about even if you’re not British.
The new advice focuses on laws in the Arabian Gulf nation regarding personal morality.
