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  • 10-05-21

    Saudi official says people still cautious about long-distance traveling

    (MENAFN)Saudis with a survey by travel operator Almosafer stated that 80 percent plan to go abroad within six months of the borders reviving on May 17.

    Initial bookings were healthy but “people are still a bit cautious about long-distance traveling,” Arab News quoted apt. Ibrahim Al-Koshy, CEO of Saudia, the Kingdom’s state-owned flag carrier as saying.

    It was supported by executive vice president of the consumer travel business unit at Seera Group, the parent company of Almosafer, who declared that initial interest amid travelers was for locations predominantly within the Middle East and North Africa, in particular near countries like Bahrain, Dubai, Qatar, and Egypt, in addition to new locations like Bosnia, Georgia, the Maldives, and Morocco.

    Arab News further quoted Ahussain as stating that “This is what customers told us in Q1 in the survey, as the borders open soon, and this is exactly what we saw, there is a spike in the traditional countries that Saudis usually travel to in terms or searches and bookings.”

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