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Arab tourism, great expectations.
The part of tourism in the world's economy is in constant
and substantial increase since the last decades, and w know for sure that the
tendancy will be confirmed in the coming ones.
This explains the initiatives aiming at attracting part of
the world tourism and at sharing the experiences of the arab countries regarding
this issue.
The Arab countries have many things to put in common as vast disparities remain
between these countries. Most of them have a rich archaeological, historic, cultural
and religious patrimony, or suffer from a similar politic or regional instability. |
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This the goal pursued by the Arab Tourism Forum that will take place in the Phoenicia
hotel of Beirut the 10 and 11th of April.
Specialists are expecting the tourist investments to reach 10 billion dollars
in the coming years, this will result in increasing the hosting capacities, the
quality of service and the training.
The touristically most advanced countries are not the most visited ones. This
can be explain by the regional tensions, and Egypt or Jordan with very rich patrimonies
have faced a deep tourist recession since the september 11 attacks.
On the other hand, the occupancy rates in countries with a stable situation are
close to 100 %.
Thinking about the political aspects of tourism, and about the programmes to be
implemented, will allow the rab world to take its place on the international tourist
scene.
Two figures, 20 million tourists visited the Arab countries in 2000, and in 2010
Morocco aims at attracting 10 millions of them.
Marseilles, the 22th of march 2002
Yann
Rotil
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