It is well known that Saudi Arabia’s poor human trafficking records remained largely under veil until social media stories garnered the attention of international human rights groups. Increasing vulnerability of foreign migrant workers in the country has aggravated problems of forced prostitution and sex tourism.
Undocumented visitors entering the country from its southwestern border often end up as just another horrific story in Saudi’s human trafficking records. These visitors mostly comprise of vulnerable Somali, Yemeni or Ethiopian workers who somehow escaped one hell hole with little knowledge of entering another!
Saudi’s human trafficking records can be assessed by delving deeper…
Forced disappearances in Egypt have always led various NGOs and international organisations to question the country’s human rights record. As per a report released by the Egyptian Commission for Human Rights in September 2020, there have been almost 3,000 forced disappearances in Egypt in the past five years.
With the emerging trend of ethical and responsible tourism, travellers have now become increasingly conscious about the environment of their destination country. Considering the hike in Egypt’s forced disappearances, various Italian activists are campaigning to convince people to avoid vacationing in Egypt.
Active campaigners have expressed their rage against the country’s systematic…
The ‘Remote Yemeni Territory’ known as the Socotra archipelago is understood as an intriguing obsession amongst not just ecotourism enthusiasts, academicians, scientists, but also UAE’s occupying forces. Although a desirous UNESCO world heritage site, the Socotra Island is currently torn between a civil war and Covid-19 pandemic.
Home to ancient cave writing and painting from various regions across the world, the remote Yemeni territory has quite scant tourist infrastructure. As per the island’s Deputy Governor, the war halted many development plans of the island’s tourism industry. …
The pandemic stalled tourism activities for almost every country across the globe. While some Middle Eastern nations resorted travel sector challenges by running fast vaccination drives, many offered temporary citizenship and extended tourist visas to lure potential tourists. Speaking of Saudi Arabia’s future tourism goals, the obstacles in hand seem to be lot more than Covid-19. Below we enlist a few of them –
Lack of Popularity
Egypt’s tourist spots have witnessed a lot of commotion over the past decade. From political uprisings, terrorist attacks, heinous bombings to Covid-19, the otherwise bustling tourist destination is now devoid of visitors as travellers globally have postponed their travelling plans until the virus loses its grip.
The coronavirus pandemic has made the global hotel industry experience an unforeseen rollercoaster ride. Despite fast inoculation drive, the UAE’s hospitality industry has been struggling to deal with reduced hotel occupancy rates. Even as worldwide travel restrictions remain the primary cause for pitfall of UAE’s hoteliers, several other factors (including geopolitical differences) pose serious challenges.
Over the past few years, the Gulf states’ economies have been thriving due to hard labour of foreign workers who travel from across the globe to earn their bread in the Arab nations. Since they are major contributors to economic well-being of a nation, each country tries to offer them privileges. Likewise, the new UAE citizenship program is aimed at reducing the speed of expat exodus that has gained momentum amidst Covid-19.
The new UAE citizenship program claims to protect the interests of foreigners by offering them citizenship rights based on various parameters. Yet, there remain a range of loopholes…
Almost every person related to the LGBT community considers the Middle East to be a conservative region. Yet tourism ministries of respective countries promote themselves as friendly tourist spots. Likewise, Qatar’s LGBT rights project a picture quite opposite from its claims of being a welcoming country for everyone.
As the host of FIFA World Cup 2022, the organising committee has repeatedly stressed that all LGBT fans and players are safe in Qatar and can be a part of the grand sporting event if they respect Qatari laws. Chief Executive of FIFA 2022 World Cup, Nassar al-Khater stated in a press…
The year gone by led the UAE aviation industry to face unforeseen problems pushing airlines to manage survival at bare minimum revenues. Since a large section of the country’s economy is dependent upon tourism and oil exports, travel bans threw the Arab nation into an economic lag of 6.1 percent in 2020.
Despite its efforts to run fast inoculation drives and encourage people to practise Covid safety rules, the UAE aviation sector continues to deal with fears of prolonged losses and slower recovery for the tourism industry. …
There is no denying to the fact that the pandemic has ravaged earnings for locals all over the world. Likewise, large-scale flight cancellations and consequent reduction in visitor arrivals have reduced the bread-winning capacity of Egypt souvenir makers, to an extent that mere survival has become a challenging task.
The first Egyptian city to get struck with the virus in 2020, ‘Luxor’ is also the one to be witness a severe hit on tourism-related revenues. Due to minimal government support amidst Covid, many tourism workers were forced to switch professions. …
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