Fahd Al-Mansoury

  The UAE has strengthened its position as a regional center for international cruise ships, and one of the most important tourist trip destinations in the world, in light of the services and infrastructure it provides that enabled it to lead the sector to return to pre-pandemic levels of growth. It is expected that Dubai and Abu Dhabi ports will reach 226 ships carrying hundreds of thousands of visitors by the end of the current tourist season 2021-2022, which constitutes a qualitative addition to the tourism sector in general. The data of the international website "Statista" also showed that the revenues of the cruise sector in the UAE will rise at an annual growth rate of 17.86% during the period between 2022 and 2026, while the average revenue per sea passenger will reach about 2,960 dirhams.

  Major travel and tourism companies announced that there has been a significant increase in the issuance of tourist visas to visit the UAE from all over the world, up to 50% during the recent period, compared to the past two years, which led to the depletion of the quotas of some tourism and travel companies from tourist visas, and other resorts to some Suppliers, such as airlines, for additional shares. This significant increase is due to the establishment of Expo 2020 Dubai, which has dazzled and continues to dazzle the world with its great innovative events and activities and its strong presence, as well as the level of security and safety in the country, and full confidence in the precautionary measures to combat the “Covid-19”,  and that the opening of air traffic in a country The UAE, and the absence of strict restrictions on travel, and the climate factor, factors that contributed greatly to that demand, as The UAE winter is among the best in the world, where many act...