EUROPEANS TO ENJOY YEMEN'S HISTORY, BEAUTY

By: Mohammad Assayghi
Translated by: Mahmoud Assamiee

FRANKFURT, Oct.31 (Saba)- European tourists expressed their great
desire to visit Yemen and inspect its customs and variable tourist
products. Some say they will think to visit Yemen to know its
history and civilization mentioned in divine and historical books.

However, European citizens Saba has interviewed in this report
reflected contradicting views over traveling to Yemen and spending
annual vacation. The majority of them supported the idea of
traveling to Yemen and some of them who did not visit the country
before said visiting Yemen is important to know important part of
world customs and culture.

Some other saw the idea as a risk with calculated results and
demanded penalties to deter criminals to stop their crimes and
considering them as a threat to safety and security of the whole
region and affect economy and culture.

" I really want to visit Yemen with many of my friends. We have
already talked about this but British office of interior bans
visiting Yemen," said British citizen Jack Gelery.

But Marsilia Gerlakh, German citizen, says "Yemen is a beautiful and
wonderful country needs more efforts for reforming security and
diplomatic system," she said indicating that many countries in the
world, among them Germany have special sections in German diplomatic
offices for promoting tourism in the country.

Virginia Paul, Italian journalist who visited Yemen several times
sees Yemen as interesting country with variable tourist product has
important position in International Tourist Map. The most important
thing, she adds, is Yemen unique tourist product on regional level
has improved through thousands of year.

She says:" Yemen has many cities, villages and important islands
like Suqutra, the real gem and if it is invested better, it would be
one of the most significant centers Yemeni society depends in
tourism. The island has attractive nature. There are also Bura'a and
Utma natural protectorates which do not receive local concern."

Meanwhile, Rafa Mazina says:" Yemen is important tourist face and no
one can ignore that and Yemeni tourism has been improved on the long
run. Yemen's unity has great role in improving tourism due to
openness policy adopted by the government."

She affirmed that Yemen only lacks security investigation and
activating security apparatus, in addition doubling efforts for
promotion to tourism in the country.

Rafa, from Austria and a researcher in Islamic affairs, affirmed
keenness on visiting Yemen. "According to my knowledge, I think this
country is not given its right concerning media campaigns but I
think there is no diplomatic role to cure its problems. Further,
tourist media in Yemen is still unable to shoulder its
responsibilities towards tourism and its future issues. So I think
this needs army of journalists."

Leona, British physician from Yemeni origin, says she is interested
in visiting Yemen to know whether she still has relatives and
enjoying taking photos to Yemen charming sites she knows from
brochures on Yemen.

Jarkas Naibal, Greek, showed astonishment when he watched the
photos in Yemen's show." Whatever the conditions are, I must visit
Yemen to see these beautiful villages," he said.

Victoria Remax, French, showed admiration of Yemen and good nature
of Yemenis she sensed when she was welcomed by the delegation
participating in the promotion campaign to Yemen. This admiration
made her visit the show the next day.