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4Sale Launches New Realty Platform In Kuwait

The premium digital experience will offer commercial and residential property to buy or rent, shaking up Kuwait’s $12 billion real estate market.

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3 years ago

November 6, 2023

Nour Nasir

4sale launches new realty platform in kuwait

4Sale, Kuwait’s largest online classifieds platform, has announced the launch of a new real estate experience, 4Sale Realty.

The new realty portal aims to shake up Kuwait’s property sector and revolutionize buying, renting, and selling commercial and residential property.

4Sale Realty will feature immersive interactive 3D tours and an accurate measurement tool to explore the exact dimensions of every listed property. Meanwhile, a team of dedicated agents will manage property listings from end to end, making the platform not just engaging but offering genuine on-the-ground experience of the country’s local markets.

Before the launch of its dedicated Realty platform, 4Sale was already a significant real estate advertiser in Kuwait, hosting over 60,000 listings across the country during 2022 alone.

“We are delighted to launch 4Sale Realty to our customers in Kuwait. Housing demand is projected to rise continuously, and the sector is ripe for technological disruption. We have developed a digital real estate experience to transform the process of buying, selling, and renting property in Kuwait. Part of 4Sale’s rapid growth is driven by a deeper expansion into key verticals – such as real estate, where we already had a strong market position – and I am very excited for consumers to experience it,” said Tarek Sakr, Chief Executive Officer of 4Sale.

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Kuwait continues to invest heavily in cutting-edge technology, and platforms like 4Sale Realty contribute considerably to the growth of the digital economy. The website is already hugely popular, with over 2 million registered users listing 12 million items since its inception.

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Trip.com Is Betting An AI Agent Will Book Your Next Vacation

Abu Dhabi, Jazeera Airways and a run of hotel deals give the company more inventory. Its Mastercard demo says the most about where booking technology is headed.

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2 days ago

September 16, 2026

Nour Nasir

trip.com is betting an ai agent will book your next vacation

Most of what Trip.com Group announced at Arabian Travel Market 2026 this week reads like the standard expansion playbook of an online travel agency: a new agreement with a tourism board, a run of hotel partnerships, an airline deal. However, one item was considerably more interesting: a demonstration built with Mastercard of an AI agent that doesn’t just suggest trips but also pays for them.

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The showcase put TripGenie, the company’s AI travel assistant, to work searching, selecting and completing purchases inside a single booking flow, with Mastercard’s Agent Suite for Merchants handling the payment step and Network International processing the transactions on the merchant side. It’s limited for now to attractions and ancillary services, but the partners plan a phased commercial rollout from early 2027.

“As traveller expectations change, technology and AI will play an increasingly important role in how people plan their journeys,” says Schubert Lou, CEO of Trip.com.

Meanwhile, in more conventional news, CEO Lou and Saleh Mohamed Al Geziry (Director General for Tourism at the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi), signed an agreement building on the two organizations’ existing partnership, with joint marketing and Abu Dhabi destination content to be pushed across Trip.com Group’s platforms.

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On accommodation, the group expanded its partnerships with JA Hotels & Resorts, Ishraq Hospitality and Aleph Hospitality and deepened its work with Silkhaus, which brings vacation homes into a portfolio that has so far leaned on hotels. Jazeera Airways signed a strategic partnership intended to widen the Kuwaiti carrier’s reach and encourage earlier bookings, tied to Kuwait’s own tourism ambitions.

The company moved into a larger Dubai office earlier this year and describes its long-term aim as a two-way ecosystem: sending Middle East travelers abroad while drawing international visitors in.