Unrest in the countries of the Arab Spring tourism to decline significantly last year in countries such as Egypt, Tunisia and Syria, while benefiting destinations such as Turkey and Dubai of tourists search for safe places, according to experts who participated in the exhibition to travel.
He said these experts during the "Arab Gathering travel" in Dubai that Egypt and Tunisia have witnessed a decline because of the violence that accompanied the protest movements that led in January and February 2011 to expel the two heads. In contrast, Dubai and Turkey benefited from this decline.
Since Turkey received 1.4 million Arab tourists during the first eight months of 2011 compared to 1.2 million during the same period of year 2010 is expected to total number of 1.7 million in 2011.
The confirmation of the phenomenon of turbulence in regional tourism map, said Ahmed Youssef, an official at the company Amadeus, which provides travel agencies to information technology said that "the numbers of Egyptians heading to Turkey Azhadadt 400 percent in the year 2011."
For its part, Dubai has seen an increase of ten percent in the year 2011, bringing the number who went to hotels 9.09 million tourists investigators revenues of $ 4.4 billion, an increase of 20 percent over the previous year, according to figures from the exhibition.
Dubai is betting on ten million tourists this year. This is now at hand with the rise in the number of arrivals nine percent in the first quarter the arrival of 2.6 million tourists, according to figures released this week.
He says Khaled Al Mazrouei, Director of the Emirate of Fujairah airport that "tourists are looking for destinations safe and quality services." Paul Griffiths, Director of Dubai Airports refers to a rise in the number of Gulf tourists, specifically the Saudis and Kuwaitis.
He told the press: "There was a process of redistribution of tourists in the past months," pointing to "jump in the number of arrivals from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia," and the other Gulf states.
The participants stressed that the exhibition in Dubai, where the pistes and the many commercial centers, constitute an attraction for family tourism and shopping.
Dubai now and reap the fruits of its strategy to make it a tourist destination thanks to a first-class infrastructure in the sector of hotels, modern airports and shopping malls luxury.
As for the area in general, has seen tourism a bad year. Yusuf says: "On the whole, saw the Middle East and North Africa declined, especially in Tunisia and Egypt."
The statistics show that the World Tourism Organization last March that the number of tourists in the Middle East dropped by 8.4 percent in 2011 to 54.8 million after an increase of 14.9 percent in 2010.
In North Africa, the percentage decline of 9.9 percent with 16.9 percent in the year 2011 after it saw an increase in size of 6.5 percent in the previous year, according to the same source.
The decline in tourist activity increased by 41 percent in Syria, 32 percent in Egypt, 31 percent in Tunisia, and 24 percent in Lebanon.
Also fell 16 percent in Jordan in the first seven months of 2011, with reference to the Tourism contributes 14 per year of GDP in this country.
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