Mobile tourism expo goes to Amsterdam

The two-day mobile exhibition is expected to bring more European tourists to the Sultanate

Times News Service

MUSCAT: Oman’s Ministry of Tourism is organising a two-day mobile exhibition in Amsterdam, as it attempts to bring more European tourists to the Sultanate in the near future.

Oman has seen more than 110,000 tourists from the Netherlands visit the country since 2012, and is keen on further increasing the number.

Set to be organised on November 8 and 9, in collaboration with several tourism companies and hotels, the exhibition provides an opportunity for travel agents to meet with the tourism companies of the Netherlands to inform them about developments and growth in tourism in the Sultanate, which is leading to the increased flow of tourists from around the world.

Salem bin Oday Al Ma’amari, Director General of Promotion in the Ministry of Tourism, said that the ministry wanted to organise tourism events in Amsterdam, as it is one of the important European markets for tourism promotion. Statistics show that the number of tourists who visited the Sultanate from the Netherlands reached 110,377 between the year 2012 and the end of September this year.

Promising market

He said that all these developments confirmed that the Dutch market was a promising one.

“It is a must that we should increase tourism promotion in the country to attract more tourists in the near future. This is an effort in line with the plans to provide more vital tourism facilities and make procedures easy,” he said. “This is why the Sultanate decided that there would not be any requirement of taking tourist visas in advance from the Dutch and from some other nationalities.”

“Such opportunities also give an opportunity to introduce travel and tourism companies and the media to natural and cultural destinations, which is the main feature of tourism in Oman,” he added. He said that there was a qualitative focus on the promotion of tourism by introducing products, facilities and services of tourism of the Sultanate.

Al Ma’amari said that the Ministry of Tourism, through these events, wanted to promote the tourism elements of the Sultanate, enter these markets and establish direct relations with them and understand their requirements and expectations.