Bitesize Business Breakfast

We have a special report on tourism in Saudi Arabia - we hear from the developer of a Red Sea tourism project the size of Belgium, and the company building 40 towers in the Holy City of Makkah. Plus, we look at France's preparations for Expo 2020 Dubai.

We look at the status of women’s empowerment in the UAE with Malik Al Madani, Chief Innovation Officer & Director of Strategy, Federal Competitiveness & Statistics Authority & Belinda Scott, VP - Sustainability, First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB).

Co-working spaces are under the spotlight in this week's edition of Property Pulse. Lynnette Abad is the Director - Research & Data at Property Finder and Tamer Alsmadi is Head of Corporate Law at Al Sahlawi & Co.

We talk to Erik Linquier, the French Expo commissioner-general about their Expo 2020 Dubai pavilion and what France is hoping to achieve out of it.

We have a special report on tourism in Saudi Arabia - we hear from the company building 40 towers in the Holy City of Makkah. Reema Al Mokhtar is the head of destination marketing at Jabal Omar.

We have a special report on tourism in Saudi Arabia - we hear from the developer of a Red Sea tourism project the size of Belgium. Steve Bowen is the Director of PR and Corporate Communications at the Red Sea Development Company in Saudi Arabia.

We hear from boxer Amir Khan about investments, we look at the latest findings from the Arab Youth Survey and we talk about the the big tech story: Amazon has shut down souq.com.

Pay-by-the-minute car rental company Udrive's CEO Hasib Khan joined us to discuss their new round of funding, and whether it’s enough to scale the company up.

Sunil John, President of ASDA’A BCW joined us to discuss the latest findings from the Arab Youth Survey - including the youth's reliance on governments.

We continue our focus on the tourism industry as part of the Arabian Travel market – today Halal tourism, and the quarter of a trillion dollars that Muslim travellers spend every year.