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Latest24 September 2026

The Quality Filter

Riyadh's STR pool shrank by more than half. Dubai's recovery is concentrated in three districts. Airbnb is funding new supply from scratch. In each case, the market is selecting for operators that wil

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23 Sep 2026

Kingdom on the Move

Saudi Arabia's National Day ignites the year's biggest domestic demand spike; Airbnb crosses 4,000 hotels at below-OTA rates; Abu Dhabi and Dubai head into Q4 on different trajectoriesThe Gulf's most

22 Sep 2026

The Push for Ninety

Dubai hotels are going into peak season with 90% occupancy in their sights, UK and Russia forward bookings are rebounding, and the pay-to-play era across all three major OTA platforms is now complete.

21 Sep 2026

Abu Dhabi Bets the Guggenheim

Hotel guests down 14.2% in Abu Dhabi, the Guggenheim opens December 11, Dubai is counting on UK and Russia, and the Middle East hotel pipeline just hit an all-time record.Abu Dhabi's hotel guest count

20 Sep 2026

The Gulf Schengen

Q4 is eleven days away. The GCC Grand Tours unified visa pilot launches this quarter on the Dubai–Bahrain corridor — and Oxford Economics data from ATM shows exactly what demand already lo

19 Sep 2026

Waiting on Rate

Gulf hoteliers leave Q4 to the optimists and set their clocks for 2027. Saudi Arabia has rewritten the rulebook for holiday homes. And Vrbo is now charging for what it used to give away.Today's signal

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