Call them optimists, but Israeli tour operators have already begun examining prospects of sending tourists to Syria.
Israelis may be able to vacation in Syria two weeks after the opening of the border between the two countries, which would occur after a peace agreement is signed, Israel Radio reported Tuesday.
The report indicated that representatives from an Israeli travel firm, the Ne’ot Hakikar Geographic Society, met with Syrian tour operators during a recent conference in Jordan.
“No arrangements have been made yet. We are just in the progress of preparing the infrastructure and all the details,” Moshe Savir of Ne’ot Hakikar told Israel Radio. “It will come only after a breakthrough in the political process.”
Savir thought that once such visits were made possible as a result of a peace treaty, Israeli visitors would find the Syrian people welcoming.
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