The Kingdom's Ministry of Tourism signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Tourism of the Seychelles to expand cooperation and exchange expertise between the two countries.
It was signed by Minister of Tourism Ahmed Al-Khateeb and his counterpart Sylvestre Radegonde, SPA reported.
While it emphasizes the importance of tourism and its role in accelerating economic growth, creating jobs and promoting sustainable development, it also aims to support and develop the activities and efforts of tourism institutions and associations and encourage the creation of investment projects between the two countries, SPA added.
Both sides, according to the memorandum of understanding, will exchange expertise in the fields of planning, tourism investment and the development of tourism facilities and projects.
The signing of the memorandum followed a meeting between Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and Radegonde in Riyadh on Sunday.