Tributary of the tourism sector funding supportive of the budget

1/18/2016 0:00

BAGHDAD - Hussein al-Tamimi Tgb

head of the Iraqi Business Council David Abdul Zayer stressed the importance of preparing for the initiative promote the tourism sector, which is the financial resource whatever can be a tributary whatever general federal budget.

He said in an interview for «morning»: The tourism sector needs to consolidate all his joints without exception, particularly the weakness he suffers because of the great neglect for decades, pointing to the possibility of launching an initiative promote the tourism sector gradually to contribute to the overall federal budget permanent financial resources. He pointed to the importance of work on a specialized affairs, tourism and capable talent to provide the best tourism services to an audience coming to Iraq or internal tourists, as well as the need to tourist resorts are working to attract tourists from all over the world hotels.

Zayer said the elements of success of the tourism sector are available in Iraq and on a large scale where a country has all kinds of Alsaahat and this rare offered in any of the countries of the world, noting that the country in which religious, recreational and archaeological Alsaahat available as well as medical that can attract tourists from all over the world, stressing the importance of availability of the elements of attractions, particularly the security and stability and easy access to visas.

He stressed the need to set up specialized institutes to prepare specialized affairs tourist competencies and be under the supervision of international experts who can pass on successful international experiences, stressing that this sector achieves significant economic feasibility of Iraq in light of the spread of tourist facilities with most areas of Iraq, and the concomitant create jobs on a large scale in the sectors of tourism and retaining and creating new markets and this in turn do the craft industries that became famous by Iraq for long periods of time. Zayer urged to start areas that are stable security, which owns various tourist areas and the adoption of a horizontal expansion plan that includes the largest number of Iraqi cities, stressing that the private sector is able to support this trend and advancement in all his joints and make it financially always a resource for Iraq. The competent affairs tourist Hassan Ali Abdul Karim has said the advancement of the tourism sector needs to be cooperation and coordination between relevant government institutions and the private sector to create an attractive environment for tourists who want to come to Iraq.

He said Abdul Karim to the possibility of entering bilateral agreements with international tourist promotion companies contribute to the preparations for the gathering point tourists to Iraq, pointing to the importance of work to facilitate access to visas for foreign tourists and its role in the advancement of the tourism sector a manner that achieves the economic viability of Iraq.