UAE residents can soon travel to the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman with one online application, ...
The GCC will begin testing a single unified tourist visa in the fourth quarter of 2025, allowing travel across all six member countries under one permit. UAE Minister of Economy and Chairman of the ...
Despite the many unknowns, the December pilot is the clearest sign yet that the Gulf is actually moving from talk to real tests. And for a bloc pouring money into tourism, smoother borders could ...
The World Bank has lifted its growth forecast for the Gulf Council Cooperation (GCC) to 4.5% for 2026, supported by ...
The foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council and the European Union held an extraordinary meeting on 5 March 2026 to ...
The economies of the Persian Gulf countries depend on oil and natural gas. Their populations depend on desalinated water. Nature endows the Arabian Peninsula with scant freshwater resources.
MUSCAT, 31st May, 2026 (WAM) -- Data issued by the Statistical Centre for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Countries of the Gulf (GCC-Stat) indicate that the GCC countries recorded a 3 percent ...
The number of hotel establishments across Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries exceeded 11,200 in 2024, up 1.3 per cent from the previous year, according to data released by the Statistical Centre ...
This contraction was driven largely by a substantial downturn in contract awards within Saudi Arabia and the UAE ...