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Leaders
26-06-2025
- Business
- Leaders
GCC Grand Tours Visa: Your Gateway to Exploring Gulf Countries
Residents of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have an extraordinary opportunity to explore the Gulf countries with a single tourist visa, known as the GCC Grand Tours Visa. The new visa, which will debut soon, will provide a seamless travel experience for non-GCC nationals, allowing them to tour all six GCC countries with a single visa, namely Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman. GCC Grand Tours Visa The UAE Minister of Economy, Abdulla bin Touq Al-Marri, made the GCC Grand Tours Visa official announcement during the UAE Hospitality Summer Camp on June 16, 2025. Al-Marri revealed that the visa has been formally approved and is pending implementation. With the official launch expected by the end of 2025, the GCC Grand Tours Visa will streamline regional travel for non-GCC nationals and residents, enabling them to travel to multiple destinations via a single online application process. Unified Visa Details Although the final details have yet to be revealed, the unified visa will have unique features that allow hassle-free travel across the GCC's six countries, similar to the European Schengen visa. The GCC Grand Tours Visa will likely be valid for tourism purposes and family visits, with a validity period ranging from 30 to 90 days. It will also include the option of applying for one-country or six-country access. Thus, it will come at lower costs than applying for multiple separate visas. Boosting GCC Ties The unified visa aims to strengthen ties and GCC integration by streamlining the visa issuance process, in addition to providing increased access to the Gulf countries. The move also marks a major stride towards fostering cultural exchange and boosting tourism and economic growth across the GCC countries through increased hotel and airline bookings and retail expenditure, in line with the GCC 2030 tourism strategy. Required Documents: Valid passport Completed application form Passport-sized photos Additional Documents: Some applications may require additional documents based on their nationality and purpose of visit, such as: proof of accommodation, travel itinerary, travel insurance, proof of financial means, and return or onward ticket. How to Apply: Fill out the online application Submit required documents Pay the visa fee Receive your visa Short link : Post Views: 17
Kuwait Times
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Kuwait Times
Kuwait volleyball team wins league
KUWAIT: Kuwait Volleyball Club was crowned Tuesday, the Premier League Volleyball Championship for the current sports season 2024/2025 for the 15th time in its history after beating Burgan with three clean sets in the final round of the championship, at the Kuwait Volleyball Federation Hall at the Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Complex. The first half witnessed a strong challenge as Burgan was able to match Kuwait with the result to end in favor of Kuwait (25-23), and in the second half, Kuwait continued its superiority and came out victorious (25-19), and Kuwait completed its superiority overall by winning the third half (25-22) to win the match by three innings without compensation. In a statement to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), Dr Jaber Al-Marri, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federation, praised the level of the Kuwait Volleyball League this season and the competition between many teams, which gives optimism for a new season coming strongly, expressing his hope that the fans will come to support their teams in the game. Al-Marri said that the competition this season was not normal, as teams such as Al-Qadisiya, Al-Arabi and Kazma tried until the last meters to win the league title, which makes it a special season at the technical and competitive levels, hoping that the teams will continue these levels until the next period because of the local cup competitions, which adds more enthusiasm and shows Kuwaiti volleyball at its usual level. He emphasized that the high level of the league with its players reflects on the national team and thus the performance of the level of the national team automatically increases, expressing his thanks to the General Sports Authority, represented by the Acting Director of the Authority, Bashar Abdullah, for all the support that the federation has received. Kuwait won the first match of the final round last Friday against Burgan with a score of (3-0) after winning in 3 innings (17-25), (11-25) and (19-25) without compensation, and according to the regulations and rules of the league, the final match is played in 3 stages, and after Kuwait guaranteed to win two stages, thus ensuring that the title is decided in its favor. Earlier today, Al-Arabi Club managed to beat Kazma with a score of (3-1), as Al-Arabi won 3 innings (25-21), (22-25) and (22-25), while Kazma got only one innings with a score of (21-25) to ensure that Al-Arabi secured the third place in the league. It is noteworthy that Al-Qadisiya holds the record for the number of times winning the Kuwaiti Premier Volleyball League with 23 titles, followed by Kuwait and Kazma with 15 titles each, Al-Arabi 4 times and Jahra only once. - KUNA
Arab News
12-02-2025
- Science
- Arab News
‘We are gearing towards becoming a multiplanetary species,' says UAE space director
DUBAI: All the UAE's space projects are gearing toward humanity becoming a multiplanetary species, Salem Al-Marri, director-general of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, told the World Governments Summit on Wednesday. Speaking to Arab News, Al-Marri discussed the UAE's partnership with the Saudi space mission. 'Having our (Saudi Arabia and the UAE) astronauts in space at the same time is the first time we had that many Arabs in space at one time,' he said. Al-Marri said he hoped to have the two countries work together more extensively and share resources to further develop the Arab space industry. 'We'd love to have our astronauts visit Saudi along with the Saudi astronauts, Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali Al-Qarni, have some joint outreach activities and really take it from there. I think also from the research perspective, the data, the outreach, we are now working on different projects that we will announce soon,' he added. But Al-Marri jokingly revealed that he, personally, was not ready to relocate to Mars, even if the opportunity were to come up tomorrow. 'Not in my lifetime, no. If there's a return ticket then yes, if it's a visit for a couple of years and coming back, I would do that. But I think within the next decade we would see some sort of human presence on Mars for a quick type of mission,' he said. 'The global exploration roadmap is moving towards trying to get a permanent presence on the moon and around the moon, and then using that to go to Mars,' he said. In a panel discussion with Salem Butti Al-Qubaisi, director-general of the UAE Space Agency, the directors discussed UAE's space missions and progress since the UAE space mission to Mars was announced in 2014. 'We see a big benefit of having these astronauts sent into space, performing hundreds of experiments, which benefit us here on the ground,' Al-Marri said. When asked if the UAE's scarcity of water in any way limited the space mission, both directors said it served as motivation for the project to go further. 'One of the main objectives of the space mission is to help understand water. We can see if there are other sources of water available. If we are planning to go deeper into space we must ensure that there are adequate resources out there,' Al-Qubaisi said. Al-Marri said MBRSC's goal and motivation was to see an Emirati on the moon in the next 10 years. The UAE Astronaut Program was launched in 2017 by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the vice president and prime minister of the UAE, and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, who was deputy supreme commander of the UAE Armed Forces at the time and is now the UAE president. Sultan Al-Neyadi was the first Emarati and Arab astronaut to undertake a long-term space mission and the first to complete a spacewalk. Al-Neyadi, together with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, were part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 that lifted off on March 2, 2023 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew conducted more than 200 science experiments and technology demonstrations during their stay at the space station and returned to earth on Sept. 4, 2023.
