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3 Mar in 2:27 Nikkei Asia As COVID-19 vaccination programs roll out across the world, tourism-dependent countries are feverishly hoping that visitors will return to their cleaner-than-ever shores from sometime this year, Nikkei Asia reports. One such country is Saudi Arabia, which now has ambitions to be the world s fifth most-visited destination by 2030. It may be hard to imagine this unlikely newcomer to global tourism outdoing a very affable Italy - the current titleholder with 65 million visitors in 2019 - but then stranger things have happened. Signs are aplenty that the kingdom is ramping up its Open Hearts/Open Doors policy that was launched in September 2019 but was stymied by the pandemic. Saudi Tourism Authority has kicked off its first-ever video and outdoor global marketing campaign, Welcome to Arabia, A Journey You ve Never Imagined, which will air in more than 30 tourist markets in North America, Europe, Asia and the GCC, ahead of international flights res

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