Thoughts of His Excellency Khalid Jasim Al Midfa, Chairman, SCTDA On World Tourism Day 2019
The celebration of World Tourism Day 2019, under the theme Tourism and Jobs: A better future for all, reiterate the responsibility of the World Tourism Organization to feature the proficiency, education, and jobs accessible in the tourism sector. The current years national commemoration is one more dominant reminder of the social, cultural, economic, and ecological estimations of tourism, which assumes an essential role in accomplishing our supportable advancement objectives and expanding the international tourist advent to Sharjah as indicated by Sharjah Tourism Vision. This key structure plans to pull in 10 million guests to the emirate by 2021.
Under the direction of our wise initiative, Sharjah has assembled a strong worldwide presence in the tourism industry. We keep on creating innovative and manageable solutions, in a joint effort with our accomplices in the government and private sectors, to sustain our accomplishments. We are additionally dedicated to contributing to the Sultan Al Qasimi Emiratization Projecttaking pride in being part of this all-encompassing human capacity development initiative through our specialized training courses. By offering such courses, we are improving the abilities and knowledge of all workers in the tourism and hospitality industries, raising the level of tourism services in Sharjah and fortifying our mean to make our services at par with the world.
We exceptionally appreciate the unfaltering help of our insightful government pioneers, who keep on stretching out to us all the aid we need in promoting the local tourism industry. Sharjah has enjoyed noteworthy development in recent years and the tourism sector has contributed more than AED 9 billion to the complete gross domestic product (GDP), which now stands at AED 102.5 billion. Looking forward, upgrading participation between the public and private sector entities is the way to producing more prominent business opportunities for our natives and occupants and continuing our present achievement.
