Challenges for OIC tourism discussed in 2015 report

Source: SESRIC.

SESRIC has launched International Tourism in the OIC Countries: Prospects and Challenges 2015 during the 9th Session of Islamic Conference of Tourism Ministers (ICTM), which was held in Niamey-Niger between 21 and 23 December 2015.

Overall, the report sheds light on the challenges of tourism development in the OIC member countries and the issue of tourism cooperation among them, listing some recommendations as policy guidelines.The report examines the performance and economic role of international tourism sector in the OIC member countries in the latest five-year period for which the data are available. The report analyses the two traditionally used indicators in measuring international tourism, i.e. international tourist arrivals and international tourism receipts. Moreover, the report provides detailed analysis on the state of the intra-OIC tourism.

Islamic tourism has a great potential for sustainable growth and significant contribution to the development of the overall tourism sector in the OIC member countries, as is reflected by a special section in the 2015 report. 

Finally, the 2015 version of the report of SESRIC discusses in details the potential role of the public-private partnership (PPP) modality for the development of the tourism sector in the OIC member countries.

At the event, SESRIC also contributed to the selection of the next OIC Capital City of Tourism by providing detailed scoring results to the selection committee on the nominee cities. According to the results of the selection committee, the Ministerial Session adopted Madina al-Munawarra in KSA and Tabriz in Iran as the OIC Capital City of Tourism for 2017 and 2018, respectively. Jerusalem was picked in 2014 as the OIC Capital City of Tourism for 2016. 

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