UAE Business: Mideast tourism destinations ‘still on recovery path’ – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: Mideast tourism destinations ‘still on recovery path’ – Gulf Digital News

The main tourism destinations in the Middle East are having a challenging time recovering their connectivity volumes from prior to the pandemic, a report said, adding that of the nine destinations analysed, only two are at 2019 levels or have improved their connectivity: Cairo and Riyadh.

Meanwhile, Madinah is the city that is furthest from its 2019 figures, said Mabrian Technologies, a leading tourism intelligence company, in its analysis of data for the main destinations in the Middle East.

To this end Mabrian has looked at connectivity data for the top nine destinations in the Middle East (Cairo, Tel Aviv, Jeddah, Madinah, Riyadh, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Doha) and the main European destinations that have traditionally been markets of origin for these Middle Eastern cities (Spain, France, Germany, UK, Austria, Italy, Greece and Switzerland).

Right now Dubai, Doha, Jeddah and Riyadh are the best-connected cities in the Middle East, adding between the four more than 38 million incoming places for the next three months – or 70% of all places scheduled for the nine cities analysed (54.4 million places).

For its part, the main European markets of origin for destinations in the Middle East are the UK, Germany, France and Italy. Among the