Bahrain's Business Friendly

As the economic development in Bahrain is growing rapidly, tourism in the kingdom is also booming. Bahrain is keen to establish its tourism sector as one of the key drivers of its economic development with ambition to become a tourism hub in the region.

The government has been ambitiously supporting the private sector to invest over $10 billion in tourism and leisure projects which are currently in the pipeline. Of course, later on, those new projects will offer enough rooms at any given time, especially during global events like Formula One Grand Prix. Everyone knows, during F1 season is like during Haj season in Macca, where visitors face difficulties to book even a single room, due to its limited availability and high occupancy in all hotels throughout the country.

Another initiative to complement current inbound-tourism activity is by attracting global seminars, meetings and conferences into the kingdom. Data from Bahrain International and Convention Centre (BIECC) statistics shows a sharp upward trend in term of business and occupancy for conferences in 2007.

The MICE industry (meeting, incentive, convention and exhibition) fetched $280 billion. The ambition to attract more MICE market is not only pioneered by the Ministry of Information and Tourism, but also fully backup by the Economic Development Board who has recently launched the country’s latest destination brand “Business Friendly”. I think Bali and other tourism authorities in Indonesia should learn from this fact.

Racing Ad

I like these ads. There are unique, distributed during F1 season, couple months ago. To me, this ad supported Bahrain as one of the world's sport destinations, and of course an international tourist destination. Any comment?

Love it..!

just love this article. thanks Asma and Stan for the great job you've done. Excellent... Appreciate it!

Let me Get Back

It has been long time, i guess i dont update this blog. I dont share many things i witnessed. I feel like lazy to upload any news, although there are lots of happings i wish to write.

There are atleast three major things happened to me. I recently got promotion, to be a PR Manager. Then also I lost my notebook, which means i lost all my files, my important documents. God, please tell him/her to return all data in drive D. He can take the rest. hehehe... impossible thing.!

I attended BITE (Bahrain International Travel Expo), together with Marcia, my friend at sales and marketing dept. I wish i can write a feature on it. I like to share how Bahrain, Malaysia and Dubai working together to boost tourism and investment in their country.

yup, lets see later...

ID

After telephone conversation, people here will be surprised when they meet me at the first time.

my name is mohammad iqbal which is pakistani name or arabic name, whether my face is like philippino. My dialect? of course indonesian english. my arabic pronounciation is just terrible.

mostly they ask, "where are you from?"
guess..!
Malaysia?
No, guess again.!
"hmm.., you speak different from most philippinos," he gave up.
because i am Indonesian.
"i see"

another case...
"who is incharge for marketing?" receptionist will tell the guest my name. the guest thinks i am bahraini. when the guest meet me they think i am philippino. When I start speaking, they just wonder.

Large Waiting Room

I have been waiting for the day.

"but it's too long, too hard for me."

"promise me we can make it!"

Work, work and work...

Hm.. been hectic with my job. Daily routines...

Work, work, and work... no time for even blog walking... howcome?