04/30/2013 12:00 AM
To activate this vital sector
of Najaf Hussein Kaabi
appealed to the Association of hotels and tourist restaurants in Najaf to open multiple ports for tourism in the country, in order to activate this vital sector, which has taken suffering from the recession as a result the economic crisis experienced by neighboring Iran.
said President of the Association Saeb Homa's (Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network), said that the tourism sector in the country, depends mostly on religious tourism, and that the Iranian pilgrims make up the bulk of the tourists who flock to the holy sites, has resulted in the deterioration of the value of the Iranian currency due to economic sanctions to a decline in the number of Iranian pilgrims in recent Last, noting at the same time that this crisis led to the reluctance of the Iranian side in the payment of financial dues to Iraqi companies biding Btfoaj visitors to hotels.
Among the hotels did not get up to date on their dues in the custody of Iraqi companies dealing with delegations of Iran, amounting to $ 30 million , so I felt the need to activate tourism archaeological and recreational to contribute to open new outlets for tourism companies and hotels, thus increasing its resources and resources of the state of this important sector, pointing out that Iraq has about 18 thousand archaeological site lacks maintenance and rehabilitation, as well as being vulnerable to theft, and the has a lot of sites eligible for conversion to Amusement Parks and Recreation in the north and south.
explained Homa, the need has become necessary because there is room government operations adopts solve the problems of tourism, through the allocation of sufficient budget, and take measures provide for moving the wheel of tourism such as granting visas at airports and provide facilities for tourists and punctuality, in order to be transformed Iraq from a country repellent to attractive for tourism.
and on the number of Iranian pilgrims, said Abu Ghoneim said the number reduced by almost half because of the economic crisis experienced by Iran now, after that the rate of visitors up to five thousand visitors a day, receded far to reach 2000 2500 visits per day, what impact negatively on the work of hotels, as there are 150 hotels stopped working and laid off its employees out of 250 hotels tourist in Najaf, warning that the negative effects of not overlooking hotels alone, but that the overall market movement also suffer, due to lack of funds spent by visiting Iran after the deterioration of the value of the national currency.
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To activate this vital sector
of Najaf Hussein Kaabi
appealed to the Association of hotels and tourist restaurants in Najaf to open multiple ports for tourism in the country, in order to activate this vital sector, which has taken suffering from the recession as a result the economic crisis experienced by neighboring Iran.
said President of the Association Saeb Homa's (Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network), said that the tourism sector in the country, depends mostly on religious tourism, and that the Iranian pilgrims make up the bulk of the tourists who flock to the holy sites, has resulted in the deterioration of the value of the Iranian currency due to economic sanctions to a decline in the number of Iranian pilgrims in recent Last, noting at the same time that this crisis led to the reluctance of the Iranian side in the payment of financial dues to Iraqi companies biding Btfoaj visitors to hotels.
Among the hotels did not get up to date on their dues in the custody of Iraqi companies dealing with delegations of Iran, amounting to $ 30 million , so I felt the need to activate tourism archaeological and recreational to contribute to open new outlets for tourism companies and hotels, thus increasing its resources and resources of the state of this important sector, pointing out that Iraq has about 18 thousand archaeological site lacks maintenance and rehabilitation, as well as being vulnerable to theft, and the has a lot of sites eligible for conversion to Amusement Parks and Recreation in the north and south.
explained Homa, the need has become necessary because there is room government operations adopts solve the problems of tourism, through the allocation of sufficient budget, and take measures provide for moving the wheel of tourism such as granting visas at airports and provide facilities for tourists and punctuality, in order to be transformed Iraq from a country repellent to attractive for tourism.
and on the number of Iranian pilgrims, said Abu Ghoneim said the number reduced by almost half because of the economic crisis experienced by Iran now, after that the rate of visitors up to five thousand visitors a day, receded far to reach 2000 2500 visits per day, what impact negatively on the work of hotels, as there are 150 hotels stopped working and laid off its employees out of 250 hotels tourist in Najaf, warning that the negative effects of not overlooking hotels alone, but that the overall market movement also suffer, due to lack of funds spent by visiting Iran after the deterioration of the value of the national currency.
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