But talk to the diplomats who have laboured away for months to build the trip, and a completely different picture emerges.
It is the power to convene, to gather a crowd of movers and shakers together, that marks out the royal trip from every other.
The prince’s presence in this region at this moment, before the dust has even settled from COP26, was not coincidental.
And it is shared by those who worked alongside him on, or to prepare for, this trip.