Egypt News: Arab League meeting to implement tourism and heritage integration initiative

The first meeting of the Arab Working Group on the Implementation of the Initiative for the Integration of Tourism and Cultural and Cultural Heritage in the Arab States, chaired by the Executive Director of the Monitoring Program of the Two Sacred Mosques , is held Wednesday at the headquarters of the Arab League.

Ms. Dina Al-Zaher, Director of the Department of Transport and Tourism of the Arab League, told reporters that this meeting was part of the implementation of the decisions of the Joint Meeting of Ministers of Tourism and Tourism. Ministers of Culture of Arab countries held in December 2018 on the approval of the initiative adopted by the Arab Summit for Economic and Social Development held in Beirut in January 2019. She stressed that the initiative aimed to activate and strengthen the joint work of the tourism and culture sectors in the Arab countries and to make tourism an essential engine of the definition of cultural heritage in the Arab world. Mara and her development.

Ben Jassas presented the action plan of the initiative and its axes, including the development of the contribution of the tourism and cultural sectors to support national economies, strengthen national identity in the field of cultural heritage, training, education and human resource development, tourism and cultural marketing at the Arab level, Promoting joint actions at the level of Arab cultural tourism and the sustainability of cultural and heritage tourist sites .

The initiative was prepared by Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Chairman of the Saudi Commission of Tourism and National Heritage, and was presented at the Joint Meeting of Ministers of Tourism and Culture on December 11, 2018 and approved by the Summit on Economic and Social Development held in Riyadh. In Beirut in January 2019.