TDT | Manama The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com Bahrain's Tourism Minister Fatima bint Jaafar Al-Sairafi reiterated the Kingdom's commitment to boosting tourism in the Arab region during a meeting with the President of the Arab Tourism Organization Bandar bin Fahad A
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Bahrain’s Tourism Minister Fatima bint Jaafar Al-Sairafi reiterated the Kingdom’s commitment to boosting tourism in the Arab region during a meeting with the President of the Arab Tourism Organization Bandar bin Fahad Al-Fhaid, state news agency (BNA) reported.
With tourism high on Bahrain’s agenda, Al-Sairafi stressed on the importance of utilizing the recent global developments to attract Arab and foreign tourists to the region.
She highlighted the efforts the Kingdom had made to promote intra-Arab tourism and increase the sector’s contribution to the economic, social, and cultural development of Arab countries.
Both officials reviewed ways to strengthen cooperation in Arab tourism integration, tourism marketing, training Arab nationals in the tourism sector, attracting tourism investments to the Arab region, keeping pace with the digital transformation in the tourism industry, and promoting tourist sites and destinations in the Arab world, BNA said.
Al-Fhaid thanked the minister for Bahrain’s support for the work of the Arab Tourism Organization and the efforts dedicated to advance the tourism sector in the Arab world. He reiterated the organization’s willingness to activate its role to advance tourism in the region.
