STC approves tourism development executive program

SANA'A, Sep. 08 (Saba) - The Supreme Tourism Council (STC) approved
Monday the executive program for the tourism development plan.

During its meeting chaired by Prime Minister Ali Mujawar, the STC
referred the executive program to the cabinet for discussion and
taking the necessary decision.

The program aims to develop the tourism sector includes 49 projects,
44 of which are concerning tourism development and five projects for
strategic development, in addition to the environmental and
marketing studies.

Moreover, the program contains the executive visions for the
projects' implementation, standards of the economic evaluation and
desired goals as well as the promotion tourism plan, which is a
complement part of the tourism development plan's programs.

The plan seeks for activating tourism in the various sites and
location in the country via providing them with all the requisite
tourism services, varying the tourism product, encouraging
small-scale enterprise establishment and including the local society
into the tourism industry.

The meeting also agreed initially on the tourism media strategy
conditioned to be revised by the ministries of information and
tourism.

Additionally, the council asserted the importance of extending
invitations by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to ambassadors of the
tourism-exported European and Asian countries to attend a meeting
with Ministers of Interior and Tourism to brief them on the last
security developments in the country and to urge them to repeal or
amend their countries' warnings on travel to Yemen.

The council also indicated to the significant role the Yemeni
embassies abroad should play to show the safe and stable environment
in the country and to promote the tourism here by any possible mean.