Sultanate celebrates Arab Tourism Day

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The Sultanate is currently participating in the celebration of the Arab Tourism Day under the slogan "Tourism and Sustainable Development", with the aim of focusing on the development of sustainable tourism, encouraging the circulation of tourism and presenting the main tourist destinations of the Arab world.
The theme of this year's Arab Tourism Day, which marks the anniversary of the birth of the famous Arab traveler Ibn Battuta, reflects the importance of sustainable development and the application of its principles in various destinations, models, experiences and tourism projects to preserve, preserve and guarantee the environmental, cultural, social and economic characteristics of each country. For future generations.
HE Ahmed Bin Nasser Al-Mehrazi, Minister of Tourism, said: "The celebration by the Sultanate of Arab Tourism Day aims to strengthen efforts to achieve sustainable tourism development, by encouraging the circulation of inter-Arab tourism in the Arab countries and taking advantage of the natural and cultural elements, while preserving and preserving them.Common in the Arab community, which is a catalyst for the increase of Arab tourist exchanges. "
The Sultanate is considered one of the major tourist destinations that attract Gulf and Arab tourist traffic throughout the year: the number of visitors to the Sultanate in 2018 from the GCC countries was of 1,472,231, while the number of visitors from the countries Other Arab brother countries 182,377 visitors, according to data from the National Center for Statistics and Information.
He pointed out that Dhofar is one of the main tourist destinations in terms of tourist attraction: the autumn season and the tourist festival of Salalah in 2018 attracted 153,588 GCC visitors and 22,306 visitors from other Arab countries.
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