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Sorely missed: Foreign tourists shy away from Yemen
28.05.2010 - Reuters

SANAA - The ancient alleys of Sanaa are still bustling. Shoppers mingle, traders peddle their wares and children play in the street, all to a cacophonous backdrop of roaring motorbikes and honking cars. But there is one thing that is almost entirely missing from the oldest and most picturesque part of the Yemeni capital: tourists ... mehr

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YEMEN: TOURISM; HOTELIERS IN BANKRUPTCY ALERT
09.08.2010 - ANSAmed

Many hotel and tourist resort owners in Yemen are on the brink of bankruptcy. The alarm has been sounded by Yemen's newspaper, Almaydan, which has stressed how the global recession and the increase of violence in the country have combined to bring down the numbers of European tourists heading there ... mehr

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TOURISM: YEMEN, 50 NEW INVESTMENT PROJECTS IN TOURISM
06.09.2010 - ANSAmed

Yemen's government wants to launch 50 investment projects in tourism for a total value of 1 billion 378 million USD. The news was announced by newspaper Al Quds Al Arabi, which underlines the attempts that have been made by the government to improve the tourist sector after years of damage to the sector's image due to Al Qaeda terrorist attacks ... mehr

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TOURISM: YEMEN; TERRORISM LEADS TO LOSS OF 1 BLN DOLLARS
28.10.2010 - ANSAmed

The terrorist attacks that shook Yemen in 2009 led that country's tourist sector to loose around one billion dollars through a reduction in the number of foreign visitors [...] Despite this situation, the tourism development plan for up to 2015 includes the creation of 37,000 direct jobs and thousands more in ancillary sectors. Among the other objectives in the plan is an increase in the number of foreign tourists by 15 per cent, bringing the number up to 2.5 million by 2015 and to attain a contribution to GDP of two billion dollars ... mehr

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