Tourism Minister Participates in Arab Tourism Ministers’ Meeting

The Minister of Trade, Industry and Tourism, Ms. Naha Mint Hamdi Ould Moukness, participated, Wednesday in Nouakchott via videoconference, in the work of the 23rd session of the Arab Ministerial Council for Tourism in Manama (Bahrain), chaired by Bahrain’s Minister of Tourism. This meeting aims to discuss several topics, including training human resources in the field of tourism in Arab countries and Arab strategy in the field of tourism security, holding a joint meeting of Arab tourism and interior ministers, supporting the tourism sector in the State of Palestine, studying the strategic vision and action plan for an Arab tourism economic forum. The participants will also review recommendations aimed at supporting the tourism sector to cope with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. They have also expressed their readiness to contribute to the good holding of this meeting, which takes place in this difficult period that Arab and global tourism is going through because of the pandemic. It should be noted that Mauritania was elected, in 2015, member of the executive board of the Arab Tourism Organization. This virtual meeting was attended by the Secretary-General of the Ministry and the Assistant Director of Tourism.