Cairo, February 1, 2022, SPA -- Meetings of the Committee to Develop and Modernize the Arab Tourism Strategy are commenced today at the headquarters of the Arab League Secretariat General, under the presidency of Egyptian Deputy Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Dr. Ghada Shalabi and the participation of delegations of members of the committee from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, Iraq, Libya and Mauritania. Director General of the strategy at the Ministry of Tourism Abdulrahman Saleh Al-Madani represented the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the meeting. The meeting aims at modernizing the Arab Tourism Strategy, which was endorsed in the Arab summit in Baghdad in 2012, in a way that keeps pace with the developments in the global tourism arena so as to study the possibility of adding new aspects to the nine aspects already included in the current strategy document. --SPA 19:23 LOCAL TIME 16:23 GMT 0017 www.spa.gov.sa/w1685943