Opening of Syrian tourism exhibition in Greece

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad expressed in an address opening of the Syrian Tourism Exhibition in Greece Tuesday the hope that the event would help efficiently in setting a turning point on the level of developing tourism, and subsequently in all other fields, between Syria and Greece.

President al-Assad said that "Syria has adopted a new vision regarding tourism as a strategic industry to make it one of the bases of the national economy. Many procedures have been adopted to achieve this new vision, including restructuring of the of the tourism sector, the establishment of the Syrian Chamber of Tourism, in addition to ensuring suitable conditions for tourism investment.

President al-Assad asserted that the tourism movement between Syria and Greece is still not enough to express the ancient common history, and the relation of friendship "that bind us in the modern time, but, anyway, our tourism relations witnessed a remarkable development" since the Greek presiden't visit to Damascus in February last year, and the subsequent signing of a tourism agreement in February this year.