Although it's been nearly 20 years with no new hotels built in the area, the region enjoys the highest annual average occupancy of hotels in Israel. It's also one of the nation’s geographical gems.
Statement follows Israeli Interior Ministry's announcement that Israelis will be able to visit Saudi Arabia for religious or business purposes – if invited and permitted by Saudi authorities.
Move is the latest sign of the warming relations between Jerusalem and Riyadh. Travelers would still need an invitation and permission from the Saudi authorities.
The Six Senses Shaharut, opening in April, was described by CNN as “the perfect destination for the intrepid luxury traveler.”
A record 4.5 million tourists visited Israel in 2019, bringing in $6.3 billion in revenue. "We hope that, despite the budget cut in 2020, we will be able to maintain this achievement," Tourism Minister Yariv Levin says.
Israelis made 705,000 more trips abroad in 2019 than in 2018, and more Israelis traveled to Arab countries via Jordan than ever before.
Travel time on the new route is approximately 30 minutes – a third of the time taken by the old Jerusalem-Tel Aviv railway line.
“Anyone sympathetic to neo-Nazi ideology and violent extremism has absolutely no place on Airbnb, and our community is a better place without them,” says an Airbnb spokesman.
This is how much you will have to pay to fly in the newly announced route between Tel Aviv and Melbourne. Tickets for flights, which begin on a trial basis in April, went on sale this week.
"We’ve taken our relationship with Israel to such a good level politically and from a tourism perspective that both sides now are very open to such collaboration," Cypriot Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios says.
