04 Jan 2024. We'll have the latest on the new Dubai PMI data from Jeanne Walters, Senior Economist at Emirates NBD as the UAE private sector saw strong growth in December, with the latest PMI reading the second-highest since mid 2019. Plus, as Saudi Arabia’s non-oil sector witnessed the fastest sales growth since July 2023, with the Kingdom’s Purchasing Managers’ Index hitting 57.5 in December, we'll get the latest from Omer Zakaria, Associate Director - Country Head Saudi Arabia, Robert Walters. We'll also discuss IHG Hotels & Resorts as they are set to open a headquarters in Riyadh as Saudi Arabia becomes more important to the hotel group, with more than half of its regional hotel pipeline in the country. Haitham Mattar, Managing Director, Middle East and Africa, S-W Asia IHG Hotels & Resorts has the latest on that. Finally, Simon Penney joins us to tell us about being appointed as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George after a five-year stint as Britain’s trade commissioner for the Middle East and Pakistan.

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