DUBAI, 17 May 2021: Local and international travel professionals converged on the Dubai World Trade Centre on Sunday for the opening of the Arabian Travel Market 2021, the first major in-person international travel event since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The opening session, Tourism for a Brighter Future, featured presentations from Helal Saeed Al Marri, director-general, Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing; Dr Taleb Rifai, Chairman ITIC & former secretary-general United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO); Scott Livermore, Chief Economist of Oxford Economics Middle East, Dubai and Thoyyib Mohamed, managing director, Maldives Tourism Board. “This year, more than any other, we, along with our