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From skyline to coastline, & from souks to sands

March 27, 2024436 Views

Discovering Qatar’s neighbourhoods In Qatar, a dazzling desert oasis nestled in the heart of the Middle East, every corner tells a story of the meeting of old and new. Nestled along the Arabian coastline, Qatar captivates you with its rich and diverse cultural landscape and stunning views across the Persian Gulf. While thrill-seekers are drawn to the Inland Sea’s exhilarating adventures, The Pearl-Qatar invites with its pristine beaches for a luxurious escape. Whether your heart beats for avant-garde architecture, or the timeless charm of traditional districts, this country offers something for all kinds of travellers, promising unforgettable adventures in every season. With an assorted array of experiences to suit every taste, here are neighbourhoods you simply cannot miss while ex...

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Visit Qatar to boost traveler engagement and tourism

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March 22, 2024429 Views

Wego, the largest online travel marketplace in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), partnered with Visit Qatar to enrich traveler engagement and amplify the allure of Qatar's tourism offerings. This co-marketing collaboration seeks to leverage Wego's extensive reach and innovative marketing capabilities to drive more travelers to experience the wonders of Qatar. Through this partnership, Wego will utilize its robust digital platform and targeted marketing initiatives to showcase Qatar's rich cultural heritage, stunning architecture and world-class events and attractions to travelers worldwide. By highlighting Qatar's unique offerings, including it's a wide selection of new hotels and iconic landmarks such as the Museum of Islamic Art and the futuristic skyline of West Bay Doha, ...

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Champion slack-liner makes a record crossing 185m above Qatar

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August 1, 2023919 Views

Perched at a height soaring more than twice that of London's Big Ben, Slackline world champion Jaan Roose, balanced precariously on a 2.5cm wide slackline bouncing in the high winds. Amid his most demanding slacklining challenge yet in Qatar, Roose remained hyper-focused, ultimately setting the record for the world's longest single-building slackline. Embarking on his aptly named "Sparkline" challenge, Estonian athlete Jaan Roose traversed a LED-lit slackline suspended between the scimitar-shaped Iconic Towers in Doha's Lusail City. The daring feat took place at an altitude more than twice that of London's Big Ben. Jaan Roose (EST) slacklining between Crescent (Katara) building Towers in Doha, Qatar on 19 June, 2023. Spanning an impressive 150 meters on a line just 2.5cm wide, Ro...

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Qatar’s biggest international food festival returns

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March 15, 2023889 Views

• Highly anticipated Qatar International Food Festival returns for its 12th edition • Event takes place in new Lusail Boulevard district for first time The pinnacle event in Qatar’s culinary calendar, the 12th Qatar International Food Festival (QIFF) is welcoming thousands of visitors to the newly-opened Lusail Al Sa’ad Plaza – the street synonymous with the FIFA World Cup 2022™ final celebrations – from 11 March until 21 March 2023. QIFF is Qatar’s largest and longest-running food and drink festival. From fireworks and family-friendly entertainment, to chef masterclasses at the Qatar Airways cooking theatre, the festival offers something for all ages to enjoy. Foodies can choose from 100 vendors offering global cuisines, from local shawarma to Mexican tacos and Liberian rice b...

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For World Cup visitors, a peek into Islamic art, heritage

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December 11, 2022855 Views

An emerald inscribed for a Mughal emperor. A Safavid-period knotted wool carpet. An Ottoman-era curtain, intricately embroidered with metal threads, which was part of the covering of the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure in Mecca that Muslims consider the metaphorical “house of God.” Like tiles in a mosaic, the collection in Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art, or MIA, provides visitors with a peek into diverse aspects of Muslim heritage, art and craftmanship with items spanning three continents and many centuries. Visitors view an Iranian carpet at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) In a capital where so much is new, the museum showcases a variety of the old and historic. And with soccer fans from around the world descending on Qa...

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World Cup fans explore Qatar’s artificial reefs

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December 7, 2022446 Views

Thirty feet (9 meters) deep into the waters of the Persian Gulf, angel fish swim in and out of rusted trucks and SUVs. Plastic bags and water bottles, blown in from the nearby shoreline, float across the ocean floor. A sunken vehicle sit in the Mesaieed sea-line at the GMC dive site in Mesaieed, Qatar Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr) World Cup fans in Qatar hoping to see some of the Gulf’s marine life are visiting the artificial reefs just off the coast of the small, peninsular Arab nation. The underwater installations of stripped-out vehicles, bicycles, concrete blocks and toilets attract divers across the Gulf Arab world and elsewhere. The discarded structures provide habitats for fish and invertebrates. Fish swarm places that have faced a decline in marine life ...

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Qatar bustles with traditional and tourist stops

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November 27, 20221138 Views

The winding cobbled alleys of Souq Waqif create a labyrinthine bazaar stuffed with dozens of small stores hawking spices and perfumes, scented oils, silk scarves, shimmering crystal chandeliers and glittering jewelry. The Qatari capital’s oldest souq also features shisha lounges, antique stores, art galleries, restaurants and a stop where shoppers can have a falcon — the national bird of this small Arab country jutting out into the Persian Gulf — sit on their arm. With the city skyline in the background, a traditional dhow boat sails at the corniche in Doha, Qatar, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Qatar was once a dust-blown pearling port transformed into an ultra-modern hub following its 1990s natural gas boom, when expatriates, Western consultants and engineers,...

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Doha’s thriving food scene traces transformation before World Cup

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November 25, 2022930 Views

A hummus recipe and cashier countertop are the only surviving elements of the original 'Beirut' restaurant, which opened its doors in Qatar in 1960 and has since tracked the capital Doha's metamorphosis from dusty outpost to hosting soccer's World Cup. Jihad Shahin's uncle opened the Lebanese restaurant in the old commercial district of Msheireb but the building that housed it was razed under a development project that produced one of Doha's most modern areas, brimming with hip coffee shops and lunch spots serving high-powered executives. The 'Beirut' eatery relocated to the more affordable Ben Mahmood neighbourhood in 2010, the year that the Gulf Arab gas producer was awarded rights to host soccer's biggest global event that kicked off on Sunday. People eat at restaurant Beirut,...

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Qatar’s vast wealth helps it host FIFA World Cup

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November 7, 2022687 Views

Qatar is home to some 2.9 million people, but only a small fraction — around one in 10 — are Qatari citizens. They enjoy massive wealth and benefits fueled by Qatar’s shared control of one of the world’s largest reserves of natural gas. The tiny country on the eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula juts out into the Persian Gulf. There lies the North Field, the world’s largest underwater gas field, which Qatar shares with Iran. The gas field holds approximately 10% of the world’s known natural gas reserves. Oil and gas have made the 50-year-old country fantastically wealthy and influential. In a matter of decades, Qatar’s roughly 300,000 citizens have been pulled from the hard livelihood of fishing and pearl diving. FILE PHOTO: People visit the Mall of Qatar, in Doha, Qatar, on Ma...

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Are fans staying away from Qatar World Cup!

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October 22, 2022253 Views

The Qatar World Cup was always going to be unique in several ways but one aspect FIFA would not have welcomed is that fans the world over are opting not to attend a tournament one supporter group said "doesn't make fans dream". There are many factors involved, which individually might have been minor deterrents but, piled together, have made supporters who routinely follow their teams at huge expense decide to give this one a miss. The shift from its usual summer holiday slot in June/July to the northern hemisphere winter, ending only a week before Christmas, because of high temperatures in the desert state has had a significant impact. Morocco fans at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 countdown clock on the Corniche, Doha, Qatar, October 20, 2022. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed Strict ...