All through the COVID panedemic Jamaica and Saudi Arabia Tourism developed a particular partnership. That is taking a brand new form.
The pleasant dance Bob Marley type between the Hon. Minister of Tourism for Jamaica, Edmund Bartlett, and His Excellency Ahmed Al-Khateeb, Minister of Tourism for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, continued in Jamaica, and a lime within the coconut was simply added.
On tour to Caribbean nations, such because the Bahamas, and Barbados, the Saudi Tourism minister stopped in Jamaica final Sunday.
The Hon Minister Bartlett advised eTurboNews.: I used to be having fun with a scrumptious Jamaican coconut water in Montego Bay final Sunday with His Excellency Ahmed Al-Khateeb, Minister of Tourism for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
It seems the lime was put into the coconut. What this lime is could also be as much as hypothesis, however judging from quite a few earlier conferences between the 2 ministers in Jamaica and Saudi Arabia, there appears to be increasingly more motive to bounce.
In June final 12 months, Bartlett advised eTurboNews:
“For us, it is a game-changer within the making as a result of small nations like Jamaica won’t ever have the capability to have giant airways like Emirates Airways or Saudia coming to us with direct flights. Nonetheless, we are able to profit from these airways coming into the Caribbean area, touchdown right here in Jamaica however having distribution to different nations within the area,” he defined.
This time so much occurred. Saudi Arabia introduced the formation of Riyadh Air, a direct competitors to different Gulf airways corresponding to Emirates, Etihad, Qatar Airways, and Turkish Airways.
Funded by the Saudi Authorities, it turns into real looking for Riyadh Air to make Riyadh the subsequent gateway to the world. It may very well be assumed Minister Bartlett might want his counterpart Ahmed Al-Khateeb to agree with him so as to add the Caribbean, and particularly Jamaica, as a vacation spot or, higher, a Caribbean hub for Riyadh Air.
HE Ahmed Al-Khateeb has been touring across the Caribbean, signing MOUs of cooperation relating to tourism promotion, simple entry, corresponding to visa-free facilitation, and different points opening tourism-wide between Saudi Arabia and the Caribbean.
There could also be a superb motive to proceed the dance that began underneath Bob Marley underneath One Like to Including the Lime to the Coconut.
