DAMASCUS, (ST) – The Ministry of Tourism held a dinner banquet at the Dama Rose Hotel for the representatives of 75 Iraqi tourist companies interested in religious tourism and a number of Syrian companies. The Syrian Transport and Tourism Company hosted the delegation in order to enhance relations between Syrian and Iraqi tourism companies.
In a speech during al –Iftar banquet, the Minister of Tourism Eng. Bishr Yaziji explained the importance of visiting and hosting this number of Iraqi companies and the decisions issued by the Ministry of Tourism regarding improving the quality of tourist services provided to visitors in general and the organization of religious tourism in particular, in addition to the measures taken with regard to security and safety in transport, hotels and all services provided to visitors.
Mr. Yaziji underlined the importance of the meeting between the Syrian companies and their Iraqi counterparts to serve the development of tourism in the two countries, expressing his Ministry’s support for these meetings, which contribute to increase the number of visitors and exchange visits between the two countries.
For his part, the Chargé d’Affaires of the Iraqi Embassy in Damascus Riyad al-Tai said that religious tourism is one of the most important types of tourism, stressing the keenness of the two countries to develop and achieve the comfort of tourists during their visit to holy religious places and increase the movement of tourism between Syria and Iraq.
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