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Skift Global Forum East Video: The Role of Culture and the Arts in Destination Place-Making

In this video from Skift Global Forum East 2022, we hear from Annette Gibbons-Warren, cultural planning director, Royal Commission for AlUla, and Melanie de Souza, the company’s executive director of destination marketing, about Saudi Arabia’s ambitious international arts and culture capital of the future.

AlUla + Skift | 1 year ago

Skift Global Forum East Video: The Role of Culture and the Arts in Destination Place-Making

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Saudi Arabia Taps New $400 Million Fund to Help Build Ennismore Branded Lifestyle Hotels

Saudi Arabia's tourism development fund said it would help invest in the building of lifestyle hotels in the kingdom through a new hotel investment fund worth $400 million (1.5 billion Saudi riyals) that Al Rajhi Capital will manage. Ennismore, a lifestyle hospitality joint venture with Accor, will pinpoint locations, provide financing options, and lead the…

Sean O'Neill | 2 years ago

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Japan & U.S. Top Resilient Tourism Economies Even Through Pandemic Challenges: New Data From WEF

The World Economic Forum is back with its travel competitiveness research, rebranded now as Travel & Tourism Development Index 2021, with a new focus on resiliency and sustainable future, as is to be expected in this post-pandemic ever-present climate emergency world. As to be expected,  high-income economies and countries in the Europe and Eurasia (Europe)…

Rafat Ali | 2 years ago