A unified Gulf visa like Europe’s Schengen: Kuwait

A unified Gulf visa like Europe’s Schengen: Kuwait

Gulf experts and officials working in the field of tourism, who participated in the Arab Travel Exhibition in Dubai, affirmed that they plan to make the Gulf region a “Schengen” region similar to Europe by launching unified tourism packages that attract travelers from abroad to multiple tourist stations in the region, according to the website “Zawya”, reports Al-Qabas daily.

During one of the exhibition’s seminars, the Bahraini Tourism Minister Fatima Al-Serafi revealed that joint talks between the countries of the region and international organizations have begun about the possibility of granting a unified Gulf visa to tourists, similar to the “Schengen” visa in the European Union.

She said, “What we saw of tourist demand in the Gulf region during the World Cup had a multiplying tourism and economic impact on the entire region.”

Minister Al-Serafi highlighted the benefits of the unified tourism destination strategy for the Gulf countries.

She said, “When we announced the 2026 tourism strategy last year, we aimed to receive 8.3 million tourists, but we were surprised by the arrival of about 10 million tourists to the country. This was prompted by a major initiative we took last year to promote tourism to Bahrain along with other Gulf countries, starting with