Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) has organized media iftars in six cities across the Gulf during the holy month of Ramadan to raise the profile of the recently launched Abu Dhabi Summer Season 2015.

It started holding iftar banquets successively in Jeddah, Riyadh and Alkhobar from June 21, followed by Kuwait City, Doha and Muscat.

"Our valued GCC guests choose the emirate for its world-class tourist attractions and unique natural landscape that combines charming waterfronts, magical deserts and lush, green oases. Our exciting Abu Dhabi Summer Season program promises our Gulf visitors family entertainment in a traditional atmosphere, and the overlap of the holy month of Ramadan with our summer season offers makes Abu Dhabi even more special," said Sultan Al-Mansoori, KSA Country Manager TCA Abu Dhabi, with responsibility for the GCC.

For the first four months of 2015, Saudi Arabia has been Abu Dhabi’s largest GCC source market with 46,576 visitors, an increase of 46 percent over last year, followed by Oman with 21,342 visitors marking 12 percent growth over the same period. Qatar and Kuwait accounted for 9,793 and 9,776 visitors respectively over the same period.

"The Ramadan iftars will be a great opportunity for us to meet our GCC media partners and introduce the Abu Dhabi Summer Season program in detail, while highlighting the benefits of choosing Abu Dhabi for a family vacation or organizing a business trip to the emirate, which through the efforts of our Abu Dhabi Convention Bureau (Abu Dhabi CB), has become a notable regional center for attracting the MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibition) tourism,” Al-Mansoori added.

The three-month Abu Dhabi Summer Season features a wide array of Ramadan-inspired activities, followed by interactive entertainment activities held across Abu Dhabi City, Al Ain and the western region.