Tourism Breaking News
His Excellency the Minister of Tourism, Ahmed bin Aqeel Al-Khateeb, inaugurated the MT Unified Platform, which is the latest government service platform in the Kingdom, during the Digital Government Forum 2022 themed “Towards a Promising Digital Horizon.” The forum was organized by the Digital Government Authority recently in Riyadh, while several government agencies participated in the presence of Their Excellencies, as well as experts, specialists, and decision-makers in the field of digital government locally and internationally.
In its first edition, the forum aims to showcase digital government achievements and success stories locally and internationally. It also seeks to enable digital community elites to meet, communicate, exchange experiences, build partnerships, discuss challenges and best modern technological practices, review future digital governments directions, and discuss investment opportunities within the Saudi digital sector.
The forum also included a presentation of the most prominent digital government products, in addition to several new publications, most notably MT’s Unified Tourism Platform. The platform aims to attract investors and provide services to job seekers and tourism service providers as part of MT’s efforts to activate the Digital Tourism Strategy launched by His Excellency the Minister at the beginning of this year.
The Unified Platform has an attractive design and a smart user interface that provides MT’s various services in a user-friendly fashion. It also provides information on each service as well as step-by-step explanations to ensure the users get the best experience. The Ministry was also keen on supporting the platform with the best technological services and allocated a technical support team for it to provide assistance.
The Unified Platform development is part of MT’s efforts to enhance the digital transformation process in the Kingdom and contribute to achieving the Saudi Vision 2030 objectives. Raising the number of annual tourism visits to the Kingdom to 100 million visitors by 2030 features high on the list of said objectives.
Moreover, HE Al-Khateeb stated that MT was making another quantum leap in terms of digital empowerment and harnessing technology to serve the Kingdom’s tourism goals. He also noted that MT made several promises at the beginning of this year, specifically at the “LEAP” conference held last February. By launching the Unified Platform, MT is fulfilling one of its promises, which is to create a platform that supports digital transformation efforts in the Kingdom and simplifies MT services provision to all beneficiaries.
