Qatar adopts a tourism plan at $ 15 billion
Qatar, Economics, 9/16/2004

The state of Qatar yesterday disclosed a major plan for tourism development at a cost of $ 15 billion to be invested in several huge tourism projects.

Chairman of the board of the Qatari tourism commission and the executive director of the Qatari airways Akbar al-Baker said in an inauguration ceremony of the fourth Arab summit for travel and tourism in Doha that the plan which is considered the largest at the regional level aims at boosting the tourism sector in the country at a two fold level during the next 6 years.

Al-Baker explained that Qatar expects this plan will contribute to increasing the number of foreign tourists from 400,000 persons at the time being to more than one million tourists by the fall of 2010, noting that this increase requires enhancing tourism infrastructure to host international sport activities and atmospheres of security and stability, two elements, all participating delegations stressed the need to ensure for the stability of tourism.

Al-Baker said that the plan implies in addition to enhancing investment in the cultural fields, building contemporary and modern cities inside and outside Doha, in addition to building eight new hotels by the fall of the mid of 2006. he added that new institutions for meetings to be integrated with tourism networks for conferences which Doha aspires to be an integrated part of.

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