Intrigued:
A blueprint on national strategy towards promoting tourism in Bahrain yesterday took centre stage as Crown Prince and Economic Development Board (EDB) President Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa received at Riffa Palace a team commissioned to study ways to develop the sector.
The taskforce, led by Works and Housing Minister Fahmi Al Jowder, briefed him on preliminary results of a study undertaken by Iris IDI Content firm to draw up a national strategy and overhaul the tourism sector. The document is expected to be ready late June.
EDB has set up the taskforce as part of comprehensive economic reform initiatives in coordination with government departments and the private sector.
Present were EDB chief executive Shaikh Mohammed bin Isa bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, Head of Crown Prince’s Court Shaikh Khalifa bin Daij Al Khalifa and other EDB officials.
GDN :: 16 Apr ‘06
but but but tourism belongs to the Ministry of (dis)Information!! 1.. 2.. 3… MWAAAAAAAH MWWWWAAH…
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Sounds like it DID belong to the MOI. Could this be the start of death by a 1000 pin pricks?
Bring back the russian hookers they work good in pairs!!
Do you think they’d know the words ‘eco tourism’? Not that I am saying that there is any ‘eco’ worth seeing/studying in Bahrain right now, but hey, they could launch some greening the deserts projects (which I was going to email you about but let me just post it here:http://www.abc.net.au/northcoast/stories/s727970.htm) and it could generate more than just tourists. ‘Green types’ love to start up projects like that and what an example Bahrain could lead..
ah but…that probably is too forward and progressive a thought. Still, you never know!!
Ingrid
Ingrid, we do have an environmental organisation (Friends of Nature) headed by Ms. Khawla Al-Mohannadi who are trying to make a difference. We also have a governmental Environment Protection Agency headed by Shaikh Abdulla bin Hamad (the king’s son) but both seem to be strapped for cash, or are not publicising their events or not doing a proper marketing job to sell the idea of conservation to fellow Bahrainis.
Shaikh Zayed in Abu Dhabi for instance understood what is to be done to take back the desert from nature and started the Shaikh Zayed Forest project which – it is claimed – already changed their environment and reduced the summer temperatures somewhat.
The link you provided (thanks!) is very interesting and I am sure could be adopted here too.. we have vast tracts of land which could benefit from this, maybe at the same time the authorities and NGOs could launch effective campaigns to educate the masses too…