Restoration work is now entering its second stage at the Imperial Theater in France’s Palace of Fontainebleau, which has been renamed as Theater Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
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The ‘I love Lebanon’ group in Brazil is arranging a trip to the Arab country from July 9 to 25. They will visit historic sites, with free days to get in touch with family. Seats are still available.
The Tunisian airline carried 310,000 passengers in April. Flights to Europe accounted for 725 of passenger numbers.
The forecast is from the Brazilian government. The system will go online at the end of this year for travellers from the USA, Canada, Australia, and Japan. Saudi Arabia and Qatar will be included later.
Egypt and Palestine took part in the World Travel Market Latin America fair this week in São Paulo. Representatives from both destinations assessed as positive the interest shown by the local crowd.
Brazil stands at 27th position in a ranking by the World Economic Forum of the tourism sector of 136 nations. In the previous editions, Brazil came at 28th place.
The Brazilian Ministry of Tourism’s Statistical Yearbook shows Morocco was the leading Arab source of tourists to Brazilian cities in 2016, with relevant numbers coming from Egypt and Lebanon as well.
The country had an increase of 10.6% in the number of visitors and of 18.8% in hotel overnight stays in February.
From April 5 to 8, five exhibitions focusing on tourism and leisure will be held at the Tunis convention center in the capital.
The plane’s first commercial flight to the Brazilian city with Emirates Airlines touched down at GRU Airport on Sunday (26), increasing passenger capacity by 38% for the carrier’s Brazil-United Arab Emirates route.
A ban on electronic devices on board flights from Dubai bound for the United States put in place by Donald Trump is expected to cause sales to drop by as much as USD 2 million, the DDF’s CEO estimates.
The growth was driven by an increase in Chinese and Russian visitors due to the new visa policies put in place by the United Arab Emirates for those countries.
Approximately 320 employees of pharma company El Kendi are spending this week in Rio de Janeiro. Their schedule includes tourism and integration activities.
Industry turnover reached USD 652 million in the first two months of the year in the Arab country. Tourist numbers went up in spite of the conflicts underway in neighboring countries.

