Saudi Welcome to Arabia
A grand meet happened of Outbound tour operator association of India with saudi tourism at Sofitel Hotel, Bandra , Mumbai on 20th August, 2022. It was an occasion to explore new opportunity in global tourism. Saudi Arabia is well known for his religious tourism, but now opening its destination for leisure tourism. Saudi Arabia has lot many potential tourism destination which a traveller always wish to have. But the big question is why India is not included in Visa on arrival list. There are 55 country which are allowed for visa on arrival. In the year 2019, approx 2 lakh Indian muslims went to haj and nearly 500 flights were used for the same. India is a one of the most promising market for Middle east countries.
Some of the key points related to Saudi Arabia are 12th Largest country in the world 2 thousand and one kilometer of coastline 10 thousand Archaeological sites 13 key destinationn Four to five hours travel time by flight
We were very happy to meet Mr. Guldeep Singh, former President of OTOAI on this occasion as he had released the Yatra Aamantran magazine in 2017. Apart from this, meeting with Shri Shravan Bhalla General Secretary was also very memorable.