UAE To Chair Major Tourism Meeting in KSA

The UAE will chair the 47th meeting of the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Regional Commission for the Middle East, hosted by Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 26th and 27th May, 2021.

On the sidelines of the meeting, the UAE will participate in the inauguration of the UNWTO’s Middle East Bureau in Riyadh and the conference, entitled, "Tourism Recovery in the Region."

The UAE will be represented by an official high-level delegation headed by Dr. Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of State for Entrepreneurship and SMEs.

The meeting will be attended by Zurab Pololikashvili, UNWTO Secretary-General, along with ministers of tourism of Middle Eastern countries and representatives of the commission’s member states.

He then pointed out that the meeting’s agenda will feature topics related to the recovery of the region’s tourism sector, adding that it will generate recommendations for accelerating recovery and regaining tourism activities to pre-COVID-19 levels.

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