Workshop on prospects of attracting Arab and Foreign Tourism investments

Participants in the “Prospects of Attracting Arab and Foreign Tourism Markets” workshop called for reconsidering the entry visas for foreigners coming to Syria and Syrians residing abroad, for holding trainjng courses for tourist guides in various languages, for supporting the transport sector for companies specialized in tourism transport based on official and specific missions for each trip, and for focusing on promoting Syrian and Iraqi tourism abroad, especially historical and cultural tourism.

The participants also called for separating between encouraging tourism and encouraging tourism investment, and for facilitating the arrival of tourist groups to Syria, and addressing the difficulties experienced by the owners of tourism offices.

The workshop focused on several issues, including strengthening economic relations, promoting the investment sector in Syria and the facilitations provided for visiting it, attracting the Chinese government companies and motivating them to carry out investments in Syria which contributes to promoting tourism.

Focus was also put on ways to encourage medical tourism and on the instructions of of the Ministry of Tourism concerning attracting the Chinese, Russian and Iraqi tourism markets.

In a statement to reporters, Minister of Tourism Muhammad Rami Martini said that the ministry is working to reactivate the tourism sector in Arab and friendly markets, and to find means to overcome the economic blockade and coercive measures imposed on the Syrian people, with the aim of facilitating the procedures for tourist arrivals to Syria transportation, securing and improving all possible services, and ensuribg the quality of services provided to tourists at tourist facilities or at border crossings, or during trips.

Rawaa Ghanam