Oman's hospitality sector thrived in the first half of 2025, witnessing an 18% surge in hotel revenues alongside a 1.14 million increase in tourist arrivals. This growth is attributed to strategic ...

Institutional changes and various diversification efforts are propelling the country’s economy forwards. At the confluence of the Gulf and Arabian Sea, Oman occupies a strategically important location ...

Oman is trying to improve conditions for local people by imposing minimum wages and workforce quotas, while dealing with dwindling energy resources. George Mitton reports. The past two years may not ...

Average room rates reached OR45.3 ($117) in the first nine months, up 1.3 per cent year-on-year. The modest rise indicates a ...

Future Fund Oman announced record activity in 2025, approving 141 projects this year and lifting total commitments to $1.2 ...

Anthony Bourdain has been hitting some seriously far-flung corners of the world this season on ‘Parts Unknown.’ All week we were wondering how or even if Bourdain could top his last episode where he ...

Mention frankincense, and it’s hard not to instantaneously think of Christmas. Cited in the story of the birth of Christ in the Bible’s Book of Matthew, it was one of the precious gifts (alongside ...

At Muscat International Airport, Sayyid Shihab bin Tariq Al Said, the Sultanate’s Deputy Prime Minister for Defence Affairs ...

India and Oman signed CEPA and a joint vision document on maritime cooperation, boosting trade, energy, defence, culture, ...

A consortium including Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co. (Masdar), Al Khadra Partners, Korea Midland Power Co. and OQ Alternative Energy have been chosen to build a 500 MW solar project in Oman, integrated ...

The headline terms of CEPA send a strong signal to both business communities ...

These days, a visitor to the Persian Gulf sultanate of Oman is likely to be a pale European seeking some winter sun, or perhaps a diplomat seeking to broker a deal between longtime rivals such as, say ...