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Turkish Airlines offers travellers in the United Arab Emirates seamless access to its exclusive holiday platform, Turkish Airlines Holidays. Customers can effortlessly plan their entire holiday, including flights, hotels, curated tours and activities, car rentals, airport transfers, travel insurance, and more as an all-in-one holiday solution. Initially introduced in 2021 to serve outbound travelers from Türkiye, Turkish Airlines Holidays expanded in 2025 to include over 60 departure countries, with the United Arab Emirates emerging as a key market alongside the United Kingdom, Europe, South Korea, Mexico, and Australia. Travelers from Dubai and Abu Dhabi can now enjoy an integrated booking platform offering departure options to more than 300 destinations. The platform provides exclusive bundled benefits, including special pricing on flights and hotels, access to over 550,000 hotels worldwide, complimentary checked baggage with every package, and the opportunity to earn extra Miles&Smiles points across complete holiday bookings. Turkish Airlines Holidays positions itself as the airline holiday brand offering travel experiences across the most countries worldwide, delivering a streamlined and comprehensive holiday booking experience curated for maximum comfort and convenience. This expansion into another key international market strengthens Turkish Airlines’ ambition to deliver an integrated, world-class travel experience, thus uniting air travel and holiday planning under one platform. Travelers in the UAE are invited to start planning their next adventure with Turkish Airlines Holidays through platform’s website.

GlobalStar Travel Management has expanded its network across the Middle East region with longstanding Partner Dadabhai Travel adding additional businesses to the GlobalStar network. James Stevenson, CEO at GlobalStar comments: “It is a real pleasure to strengthen our longstanding Partnership with Dadabhai Travel as together we extend our footprint to other key countries in the region, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates. We are seeing a surge in demand on travel requirements throughout the region from corporates focused on finance, property management, energy and marine travel.”  “In welcoming these Dadabhai Travel markets to the GlobalStar network, we add not only additional likeminded and ambitious travel businesses but also the very best regional knowledge, significant manpower and wealth of experience.” Nitin Menon, Executive Director of Dadabhai Travel UAE, Oman, and Iraq, commented: “Expanding our partnership with GlobalStar beyond Bahrain to include KSA, UAE, Kuwait, Oman, and Iraq is a significant milestone for Dadabhai Travel. This partnership enhances our global connectivity, enabling us to provide even greater value to our clients through improved supplier relationships, advanced technology, and access to a worldwide network of travel expertise. We are excited about the opportunities this collaboration will bring for our clients and our business.”

TravelGenius Pte Ltd announced the launch of Geni-us, a powerful travel search engine which delivers meaningful, relevant, and personalised travel recommendations and itineraries based on the travellers’ desired experience. The map-based travel planning and discovery platform uses a revolutionary technology understanding travel intent, with a natural language free form search, answering all travellers needs in a single search and locating the best area to stay at. Acting as the users’ local travel agent, Geni-us.ai, currently launched in Beta version, offers a stress-free way for users to turn all their travel desires into memorable experiences, at a click. Following the recent launch of SpotQuest, the leading location intelligence platform for hospitality businesses, TravelGenius is ushering in a new era of human-centric innovation for the travel industry. Leveraging cutting-edge Voice and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies, as well as advanced mapping capabilities, TravelGenius offers a dedicated location intelligence platform tailored to the unique needs of the hospitality and travel sector. With access to meticulously curated proprietary data, TravelGenius enables location classification at granular levels, right down to streets and neighbourhoods. This all-encompassing platform is a one-stop solution catering to the diverse needs of travel businesses, consultancies, hotels, restaurants, travellers, and destinations alike, offering a transformative approach to the world of travel. Pioneering this game-changing solution for the travel industry, Hannes Bos, the Founder of TravelGenius, is a hospitality professional with over two decades of industry leadership. Understanding the travel industry challenges, Hannes has always wanted to simplify how people work in the industry, and how travellers can plan for their trip and make the best out of their stay. “Over the last twenty years, the online travel industry has not been able …