Tourism Ministry to present 50 investment projects worth $ 1.3 bln

SANA'A, Sep.04
(Saba)- Ministry of Tourism is to present 50 tourist investment projects with an
investment
capital estimated at USD 1.3 billion in the Arab Tourist Investment Forum to be held
next October in the capital Sana'a.
Undersecretary of Tourism Ministry for Tourism Development Sector Omar Ba-balgheith
told Saba that the projects to be presented during the forum would include seven
various
tourist investment projects, out of them six coastal projects in five provinces, and
a project distributed to 44 sites including many provinces in the country.
The six projects include resorts and integrated tourist villages in Medi coast of
Hajjah province, Almark Island in Hodeidah, Ras Alarah and Khor Omariah in Lahj,
Dhabdhab
coast in Alshihr in Hadramout, and Ghazlet coast in Mahrah province, he pointed out.
Ba-balgheith indicated that the seventh project include establishing five-star
hotels, three-star hotels and mountain, mud and sea villages and tourist rest
houses, distributed
across the country.
He noted to the importance of the tourist investment projects in contributing to
reducing poverty, creating job opportunities, encouraging the economy and raising
the local
societies' economies.
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