Tourism investment.. Inexhaustible industry
Tourism can be defined as a leisure travel activity and the provision of services related to this activity and the tourist is a person who is moving for the purpose of tourism for a distance of at least eighty miles from his home, according to the definition of the World Tourism Organization of the United Nations .. No longer the tourism industry as they were years ago; since branched out its branches and overlapped and became involved in most areas of daily life, and Tourism is not the person who carries a small suitcase and travels to the country to spend several nights in a hotel and walk around between the parameters of the country's archaeological has changed as and change and tourism surpassed the narrow limits of the intervention force to every place to which affect and are affected by it.
This diversity is the result of the development of the tourism industry and the product crept to the forefront of economic sectors in the world, has been able to tourism to overcome all the crises and the experience has shown that industry does not dry up and disappear, but grow year after year despite all the unfortunate events that may be experienced by the tourism is an industry linked to the desire humanity to know and skip the border have predicted some years ago that the less tourist traffic with the development of the media and the emergence of the Internet, which filled with information, images and data, but the years have proven that tourism will remain the most growing industries and the most established and despite the entry of many countries in the recent period to the travel and tourism market but the market can absorb the whole world is the world industry of the world and to the world and the most advanced and open-minded and understanding is the one who can take them as much as you want ..
Yemen was and remains a tourist destination interesting .. Component of natural diversity, and historical and cultural depth and attendance is important for the civilization of Yemen in the system of civilization-Semitism, all of which are a source of inspiration for many people, raise their curiosity to visit Yemen in order to know a lot about this country, which was known as "Arabia Felix".
The importance of tourism to Yemen drawn from this rich heritage, and therefore the tourism based on this legacy, should represent an important benefit in the formal agenda in the present and future, at the time a development is one of the most important and biggest challenges facing Yemen.
During the past years, been taking a number of measures and actions, was the drafting of legislation governing the tourism sector, and that was a response to different levels, what can be described as a pace remarkable growth in this sector comes from the regiments of tourists regularly visiting the country, which encouraged the employment of some investments in the establishment of hotels and restaurants are classified in the major cities, and securing some of the services associated with tourism.
Awareness of investment
I miss the tourism sector during the last period, to what can be considered, if necessary awareness of the economic turn, this awareness, you do not happen unless accommodate of statistical indicators, the effect of direct and indirect tourism and tourist spending.
Today there are changes to the banner experienced the tourism sector, reflected this shift in the sophistication of the sector at both the institutional and legislative framework, and ensure the knowledge economic role in supporting the gross domestic product (GDP), through statistical system more inclusive of the impact of direct and indirect for the sector on the overall economic activities and services.
But we still believe that this level of transformation, it needs to assign a real official and popular levels, and this assumes that everyone is fully aware of the economic importance of tourism .. And a means to establish and strengthen the awareness of this is its means of various media, public information, "Radio and Television" and the press, and forums of opinion, can civil society organizations and social events and local councils to contribute too, in promoting awareness of this role.
There is the fact that the tourism sector, despite the many difficulties faced due to poor potential of the tourism industry, and deficiencies in the level of social awareness towards this sector, as well as threats of emergency, has been able to develop his contributions in support of the GDP, exceeding the ceiling of 85 billion riyals during the year the past.
It is time, so if we are all aware that the oil which formed during the past two decades the most important part of the GDP of the state, recorded a significant decline, due to lower production volumes as a result of depletion of some of the fields .. In light of the fact that such an objective could be argued that one of the most important economic alternatives available to us in Yemen, is tourism, and not others....
HEAD OF THE TOURISM SUPPORTERS ORGANIZATION*
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