{"id":8363,"date":"2020-04-26T09:10:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T06:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=8363"},"modified":"2020-04-26T09:10:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T06:10:04","slug":"g20-vows-to-boost-tourism-sector-battered-by-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/weben\/g20-vows-to-boost-tourism-sector-battered-by-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"G20 vows to boost tourism sector battered by Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>G20 nations pledged Friday to cushion the economic blow of the coronavirus pandemic on global tourism, one of the hardest-hit industries in which millions risk losing their jobs. COVID-19 lockdowns have pounded international tourism, which is estimated to see a 45 percent decline this year according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).<\/p>\n<p>G20 tourism ministers pledged to ensure coordination as their countries ease lockdowns and travel restrictions, and to support the struggling industry&#8217;s recovery. &#8221;We commit to helping tourism sector businesses&#8230; entrepreneurs and workers to adapt and thrive in a new post-crisis era,&#8221; the ministers said in a joint statement after a virtual meeting hosted by the group&#8217;s current president Saudi Arabia. Up to 75 million jobs are at risk in the labour-intensive sector, they said, citing the World Travel and Tourism Council.<\/p>\n<p>The tourism minister of Saudi Arabia, which last year issued its first tourist visas to boost the nascent sector, voiced hope the pandemic&#8217;s impact would be &#8221;short-term&#8221;. Saudi tourism faces a sharp downturn just months after launching the new visas in September, vaunting ambitions to welcome 100 million visitors by 2030. The kingdom has spent billions in an attempt to build a tourism industry from scratch, one of the main planks of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman&#8217;s drive to wean the economy off its decades-long dependence on oil revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has splurged more than 500 million riyals ($133 million) to quarantine thousands of overseas travellers and those exposed to the virus in otherwise empty hotels around the kingdom, Khatib said. The government is renting &#8221;complete hotels&#8221; for three or four months, Khatib added, offering a temporary lifeline to the struggling sector.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20200425-g20-vows-to-boost-tourism-sector-battered-by-covid-19\">France24<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G20 nations pledged Friday to cushion the economic blow of the coronavirus pandemic on global tourism, one of the hardest-hit industries in which millions risk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[88,1062,1544],"class_list":["post-8363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weben","tag-covid-19","tag-g20","tag-tourism-sector","wpcat-40-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rsz_vaulogo.jpg?fit=100%2C58&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8427,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363\/revisions\/8427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}