Tourism revenues reached 450 mln dollar in 2008

SANA'A, Feb. 05 (Saba) - Tourism revenues have increased to $450 million during 2008
with an increase of $25 million compared with 2007, according to an official
statistic published by Tourism Ministry.

The statistics show that the number of tourists from different nationalities who
visited Yemen have increased to 404,497,000 during 2008 compared with 378,361,000
tourists during 2007.

Tourism sector has been affected by a number of terrorist events which took place
in the country affecting the growth of tourism revenues which reached 7 % in 2008.

According to the statistics, tourists visited Yemen from the Middle East came first
at 8% compared with 7% of tourists who come from Europe and Africa and American
tourists at 3%.