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♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ samantha hawley: as a foreign correspondent, my job takes me to many countries, but steppingng mildly unsettled. after all, this is saudi arabia, home to islam's holiest cities and governed by sharia law. women have few rights here. we've arrived at a pivotal moment in the country's history, as it's finally opening up to tourism. i'm one of the first people in the world to get an evisa and a government offer to show us this vast and unfamiliar place. ♪♪♪ samantha: i knew this was an absolute monarchy, and the world's biggest supplier of oil, but i wasn't at all prepared for what i was about to experience. ♪♪♪ samantha: a glittering--decidedly non-alcoholic--evening headlined the importance of tourism to the country's future. ahmad bin aqil al-khatib: [speaking arabic] samantha: a multi-million-dollar publicity drive is boosting tourism, a key plank in diversifying the country's economy, a plan called vision 2030. earlier, i'd been briefed by our minder on what i couldn't ask the tourism minister when i interviewed him. samantha: okay, although kashoggi, i suppose you could ar

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