{"id":294112,"date":"2019-09-27T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T06:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=294112"},"modified":"2019-09-27T12:36:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T07:06:41","slug":"in-a-first-saudi-to-offer-tourist-visas-as-part-of-push-to-diversify-economy-away-from-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-a-first-saudi-to-offer-tourist-visas-as-part-of-push-to-diversify-economy-away-from-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"In a first, Saudi to offer tourist visas as part of push to diversify economy away from oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh: Saudi Arabia said Friday it will offer tourist visas for the first time, opening up the ultra-conservative kingdom to holidaymakers as part of a push to diversify its economy away from oil. <\/p>\n<p>Kickstarting tourism is one of the centrepieces of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman&#8217;s Vision 2030 reform programme to prepare the biggest Arab economy for a post-oil era. The announcement comes just two weeks after devastating attacks on Saudi Arabia&#8217;s oil infrastructure &#8212; blamed by Washington on Iran &#8212; which roiled global energy markets. &#8220;Opening Saudi Arabia to international tourists is a historic moment for our country,&#8221; tourism chief Ahmed al-Khateeb said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh: Saudi Arabia said Friday it will offer tourist visas for the first time, opening up the ultra-conservative kingdom to holidaymakers as part of a push to diversify its economy away from oil. Kickstarting tourism is one of the centrepieces of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman&#8217;s Vision 2030 reform programme to prepare the biggest Arab economy for a post-oil era. The announcement comes just two weeks after devastating attacks on Saudi Arabia&#8217;s oil infrastructure &#8212; blamed by Washington on Iran &#8212; which roiled global energy markets. &#8220;Opening Saudi Arabia to international tourists is a historic moment for our country,&#8221; tourism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}