In January, I kicked off the new year with a scouting trip to one of the least-known and least-visited destinations on the planet: Saudi Arabia. I had first traveled to the kingdom four years ago as a guest of a royal commission developing tourism. (Tourist visas were only introduced in September 2019.)
From the moment I arrived in January 2022, with KN95 masks, proof of vaccination and a negative PCR test in hand, I found that much in the country had changed—far beyond the new health safety po...
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