May 17th 2021, 16:41
Speakers at Arabian Travel Market have called on governments and the private sector to work together to support recovery across the Middle East.
Ghada Shalaby, Egypt’s vice-minister of tourism and antiquities, told delegates that cooperation between ministries during the pandemic in her country offered a formula for others to follow to reopen tourism.
Speaking in a session run by the Global Travel & Tourism Resilience Council, Shalaby said the ministries of tourism and health continued to cooperate as the country targeted between six and seven million visitors in 2021.
Scott Hume, senior vice-president of operations for Global Rescue, added: “There needs to be significant industry and international governmental collaboration to solve information gathering and distribution efforts across the globe to get travel started.