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.
Government and private sector must ensure travel rebounds to boost Middle East economies
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