Saudis look for short, last minute breaks, with Qatar seeing renewed interest
* Sojern’s figures showed that 35.8 percent of Saudi online holidaymakers are looking to book short local trips of up to one night
Published 30 Jan,2021 via Arab News - Economy RIYADH - Data from the travel-sector digital marketing platform Sojern shows that there has been a dramatic 70.5 percent surge in interest in Qatar since its restoration of relations with Saudi Arabia and the reopening of land and air borders between the two GCC neighbors.
“This potentially highlights interest in the new opportunities to travel across the borders presented by relations being restored… A positive increase in search volume to Qatar in the last 14 days from Saudi Arabia can be observed as compared to the searches in the last 28 days,” Sojern said in a blog analyzing the first two weeks of 2021.
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