It’s almost the end of 2008 and I thought of sharing 12 of the well-liked posts of the year on i|am|nabeel.com, as preferred by readers and industry colleagues.
Earlier this month Aafathis, one of the local news papers called me asking for sometime to chat. I was on the road so I asked the gentleman to call me back – he did call me after an hour and invited me to his office. Huge office it was but no one except me and […]
Few days back my friend directed me to a Blog and asked me to read an article about website concepts in the Maldives Tourism Industry. The author highlighted some websites of travel companies weighing the fitness of those websites in Search Engines. I like to agree with the author as most of the websites we […]
Every month, when I read my market segment report I get very excited because direct bookings seem to be in the rise. We trade with an average occupancy of 79% a year and like any other resort in the
Tourism has finally reached the Southern Part of Maldives after a longtime. The first active resort to open in Addu is Herathera which is now subleased to a local company on a management contract. It appears that the island name will soon be changed to a different business name “Han’ dhu Fushi” – when translated […]
Here I am again, writing some comments on the MTPB Marketing Workshop held earlier this month.
Today, I am going to write something about the first point of discussion;
1. New ideas to market the destination.
I think and hope you will agree that there should be always new ideas to promote a destination or anything for […]
Who is your competitor and how do you decide that? Very often people ask me this question and I like to ask the same questions from others to find the best answer. If you ask this question from someone in hospitality you will probably get some hypothetical answer or a totally irrelevant story. Don’t take […]
Finally the airline industry has realized that economy is business. I was recently on Airbus A380 from
Economy cabin in Airbus A380 looks and feels like business class cabin – innovatively designed with different colors in different sections – […]
The past few days have been very exciting as so many interesting things are happening around us. Last week, we heard the news of British XL Leisure Group going to liquidation and this week the headlines are making news of the banking giant Lehman Brothers going to administration. Does this mean
Yesterday I had a chat with my friend Hwa-Yul Shin from
I recently came from
I don’t know how to start this post as I normally try to avoid politics when talking about business and my profession, but this may sound bit different. Moving on, I wanted to write this piece as I spend most of my time thinking about Maldives Tourism and its direction as one of the key […]
I have said this before and we all know that the world is in crisis and that people are in panic. Tourism Authorities and Hospitality Business are worried as arrivals are showing negative growth and forecasts becoming difficult due to short leads. Hospitality experts are spending sleepless nights thinking and forecasting the Outlook for 2009 […]
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