Tourism Investment Forum Kicks off Today in Tartous

TARTOUS, (ST)-  The Ministry of Tourism holds the Tourism Investment Forum in the Syrian province of Tartous for the first time since 2005 when the forum was first launched.

The forum used to be held annually in Damascus.

Director of Tatous Tourism Yazan al-Sheikh highlighted the importance of the event in which a number of companies as well as businessmen and investors from Syria, Arab and foreign countries will take part and hold dialogue sessions on the investment environment in Syria, investment encouraging elements and the facilitations to be provided by the government to investors willing to carry out tourism investment projects in the country.

Participants will be briefed on the investment opportunities in all the Syrian provinces and on the situation of investment particularly in Tartous which will present five tourism investment projects that are ready for contracting and will promote three other ones, according to al-Sheikh.

He pointed out that the forum will last for two days. Activities of the first day will start with visits to the sites of several projects which are under implementation and which are presented for investment.  Later on, dialogue will be held for discussing tourism issues and exploring the investment opportunities.

Hamda Mustafa