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Yemen tourist authority signs study for tourist sites
Source: Yemen Observer; BI-ME , Author: BI-ME staff
Posted: Wed September 7, 2005 12:00 am
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YEMEN. Six agreements on setting up six tourist sites on the coastlines of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea, at a cost of YER 45.8 million (US$250,000), have been signed this week.

The Public Authority for Tourism Development signed the agreements with the Egyptian Centre for Tourist Studies and Al-Taher Centre for Engineering Consultations.

Under the agreements, Al-Taher Centre will draw up economic, social and environmental standardisations and designs for the tourist sites in Tolmah Gulf, Hadhramawt, for YER 4.3 million, and in the North of Midi on Al-Dayomah Island in Lahj, for YER 4.7 million.

According to the agreements, the Egyptian body will also study a possible tourist site on the Abu Zahar coastline in Al-Hodeidah, estimated at YER 9 million, and another site on the Mashhor coastline, between Aden and Lahj, which will cost YER 8.9 million.

The Egyptian Centre will also study a site in the Al-Hindi area of Al-Khokhah district in Al-Hodeidah, worth YER 6.1 million, and a site in Ras Kathib in Al-Hodeidah worth YER 9.9 million.

The proposals for the sites will contain tourist villages, restaurants, sports clubs and health facilities.  The studies are expected to be submitted to the government within four months.

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