Oman Travel News

The Sultanate of Oman's focus on tourism and cultural heritage is significantly boosting its status as a regional and global leisure hub, to which end Oman will be showcasing its latest tourism offering at this year's Arabian Travel Market industry showcase.

Nawras, Oman's customer friendly communications provider, continues to lead the telecommunications market in Oman with attractive GCC roaming rates that are offering fantastic value for customers as well as making it easier to get closer when travelling.

Muscat: An Indian lawyer in Oman has challenged the alleged insult to the Indian national emblem, the Ashoka Chakra.

KARACHI: For the first time in its eight-year history, Etihad Airways, the national carrier of the United Arab Emirates turned a profit: $14 million.

Etihad Airways, the national carrier of the United Arab Emirates, today reported a full year EBIT of US$137 million, on revenues up 36.0 per cent to US$4.1 billion .

Etihad Airways, in association with online service partner TT Services, is now offering visa processing services to all guests wishing to travel to the United Arab Emirates starting from February 7. Guests wishing to travel to the UAE can now simply head to the Etihad office in Dhaka where a visa agent will be available to help them, said a news ... (more)

In the February issue of "Emirates" the in-flight magazine of the International Airline of United Arab Emirates , local journalist Gary Singh offers recommendations to tourists on visiting historical Silicon Valley technology-related sites.

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CHENNAI: The sand dunes, oases, mountains and ancient ruins in Oman have been ideal locales for film shoots for long and the country now plans attract more visitors by offering incentives and subsidies to Kollywood producers willing to shoot movies there.

Malaysian palm oil exporters have stopped supplying Iran with most of the 30,000 tonnes of the food staple the Middle Eastern country buys each month, or about half its demand, as Western financial curbs on Tehran stymie payments, two trading sources said.

MUSCAT: To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Oman, the Embassy of Japan plans to hold an exhibition of photography titled 'Japan's Advertising Photography '. The exhibition will be co-hosted by the Oman-Japan Friendship Association in cooperation with the Omani Society for Fine Arts.

Axl Rose, a lead singer of the American hard Rock band, "Guns N' Roses" Performs during a concert on the Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Thursday, Dec.

MUSCAT: From tapas to paella, traditional Spanish dishes will be on the menu at the Grand Hyatt from February 8 to 18 as part of the Spanish Gourmet Week, 'A Taste of Spain', hosted by the Spanish embassy .

O'Neill, a longtime traveler and author of an upcoming Lonely Planet book on Egypt, is not dissuaded by the evacuation of the U.S. and British embassies in Syria, rumblings of possible Israeli airstrikes against Iran or rioting in Cairo.

Only four out of 40 high schools made it to the regional competition that determined the state's representative at the national contest.

Rapt attention: Fatma Abdul Abbas Noorani, Director General of Private Schools at the Ministry of Education, with Nawabzada Aminullah Khan Raisani, Pakistan ambassador, after inaugurating the Centre for Special Education.

DUBAI/MUSCAT: Central Bank of Oman , the Sultanate's banking regulator, has initiated steps to migrate to chip-enabled payment infrastructure called EMV smart cards, from less secure magnetic-stripe payment cards prevalent in the country.

Sales of women's jeans continued to suffer from the impact of the global economic downturn and ongoing economic uncertainty at the end of the review period.

Mega event: Dr Khalid Al Zadjali, chairman of Muscat International Film Festival and Oman Film Society , with Mohamed Issa Al Zadjali, director of Black & White events, at the press conference yesterday.

While Dubai and Abu Dhabi remain at the helm of the most prosperous Emirates in the UAE, other Emirates are joining the flow, this is a quick journey to the mountainous coastal city of Fujairah! From the hustle and bustle of Dubai, and before the traffic jams of Sharjah city begin, you make a right turn and join Maleeha road, 45 kilometres later, ... (more)