![]() Hyatt has one of the world's largest portfolios of hotels and resorts, focused on the high-end travelers in each segment that it serves, and is continually growing its brand footprint. ![]() This collaboration with Hyatt will help us to attract tourists and ensure that they receive a comfortable, high-quality experience in the Kingdom’s top tourism destinations.” ![]() The development of these hotels would be part of the Kingdom’s National Tourism Strategy and in line with Saudi Vision 2030.Ĭommenting on the agreement, CEO of the Tourism Development Fund Qusai Al-Fakhri, said, “We are joining forces with many legacy brands in the tourism, hospitality, and business travel segments as we continue to thoughtfully expand our roster of collaborators. They will be developed under Hyatt’s existing trademarks, such as Alila Resorts, which offer an authentic wellness destination experience, or other trademarks such as Park Hyatt, Hyatt Centric, Grand Hyatt and any other Hyatt brands mutually agreed upon by the entities. These destinations may include beach and urban hotels, as well as mountain, desert and farm retreats. The collaboration aims to develop several hospitality-led destinations which will enhance the tourism offering in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Tourism Development Fund (TDF) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with an affiliate of Hyatt Hotels Corporation to establish luxury hotels across Saudi Arabia. The vault holds over 1.1 million seed samples of nearly 6,000 plant species from 89 seed banks globally. "The fact that the seed collection destroyed in Syria during the civil war has been systematically rebuilt shows that the vault functions as an insurance for current and future food supply and for local food security," said Norwegian International Development Minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim. ICARDA made the first seed withdrawal from the vault in 2015 to replace a collection damaged by the war, and two further withdrawals in 20 to rebuild its own collections, now held in Lebanon and Morocco. The International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), which moved its headquarters to Beirut from Aleppo in 2012 because of the war in Syria, will deposit some 8,000 samples. ![]() On Monday, gene banks from Sudan, Uganda, New Zealand, Germany and Lebanon deposited seeds, including millet, sorghum and wheat, as back-ups to their own collections. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, on Spitsbergen Island halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, is only opened a few times a year to limit its seed banks' exposure to the outside world. A vault built on an Arctic mountainside to preserve the world's crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes received new deposits on Monday, including one from the first organization that made a withdrawal from the facility, reported Agence France Press. ![]()
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