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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A few weeks before ALG Vacations first big in-person meeting, I got an email asking me what color lanyard I d like.
Green meant good with hugs and pre-Covid practices. Yellow meant OK with talking but not touching. And red meant totally keep your distance, or to put it more bluntly: back off.
At the World Travel & Tourism Council s (WTTC) Global Summit, a larger, mostly indoor event held just a few days ahead of ALG s meeting, much more formal protocols were in place, including mandatory rapid testing on arrival, regular temperature checks and a daily health questionnaire.
A guide
on where to go, how to get there and everything you need to know, before and after you travel
1. Armenia is open for tourists with negative PCR test results. All images courtesy Unsplash unless otherwise mentioned
2. Cyprus is a four-hour flight from the UAE.
3. Egypt is open to tourists and several airlines are operating between the UAE and Egypt s most-visited destinations.
4. Georgia is open and looking to rebuild the momentum it saw in tourist numbers before the pandemic.
5. Greece is open for travel. Courtesy Aman Hotels & Resorts
6. Kenya is welcoming travellers from the UAE which is on the quarantine exemption list.