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Sara Al-Marghalani wants to play her role in introducing the Kingdom’s hidden treasures to the world
Updated 27 April 2021
April 27, 2021 00:30
RIYADH: As Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 reform plan celebrates its fifth anniversary, citizens nationwide are looking at the many ways the ambitious plan has affected their day-to-day lives.
The overarching goal of the plan, to move the Kingdom away from an oil-based economy, has had the entire nation looking toward new industries and re-evaluating their perceptions of how Saudi Arabia could achieve success, and one of the biggest and most successful industries has been tourism and hospitality.
For some Saudis, working in the hospitality sector is a dream they have harbored for a long time, and they have taken great pains to find ways to break into the field. But some, like industry pioneer Sara Al-Marghalani, just “stumbled” into the industry almost by accident.
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Ironically, the Red Sea corals touted as the most likely to survive global warming turn out to have a problem with climate change, and it isn’t the heat. Up to a point, of course. It’s the cold.
Climate change is characterized by weather extremes, we are discovering by the day. “Global warming” also involves relatively extreme cold snaps. The corals in the northern Red Sea can survive extraordinarily hot water temperatures as much as 7 degrees (!) Celsius (12.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above their average range, Prof. Maoz Fine of Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, tells Haaretz – temperatures at which other corals would roast.