BTEA board discusses upcoming tourism projects and partnerships

TDT | Manama                                                             

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

The Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority (BTEA)'s Board of Directors held its first periodic meeting of Q2 of 2022 today (August 28) under the chairmanship of the Tourism Minister Her Excellency Fatima bint Jaffer Al Sairafi.

The meeting's opening remarks by Her Excellency, emphasised the authority's commitment to intensify efforts in order to meet the challenging objectives of Bahrain's tourism strategy 2022–2026, boost the sector's GDP contribution, diversify the Kingdom's economic foundations, and generate employment opportunities for citizens.

The Minister of Tourism emphasized the need to work as efficiently as possible in the upcoming stage in order to maximize the benefits from the gradual recovery of tourism activity in Bahrain and the surrounding area, to provide more creative tourism and recreational activities that attracts Gulf tourists, as well as, advertise the Kingdom of Bahrain as a prime tourist destination in the region.

During the meeting, the CEO of the Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority, Dr. Nasser Ali Qaedi , pointed out to that the 82% recovery rate of the tourism sector from the pre-pandemic period portends a more prosperous present and future for this industry and increases the responsibility of the cadres of the Ministry of Tourism and the Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority to further develop the tourism sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain with its various components and in collaboration with the establishments of the private tourism sector.

Dr. Qaedi further explained the overall performance indicators of the tourism sector over the past year, the sector's marketing and promotion plans, the services offered to the authority's various clients, as well as the status of the organization's infrastructure projects for the sector such as the Bahrain Exhibition World.

Dr. Qaedi also spoke about the most effective ways to utilize the authority's vast network of connections, including more than 75 tourism agreements  throughout the world, in order to, promote various events held by private tourism sector facilities in Bahrain.