UAE tops Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) has ranked the UAE as the most competitive travel and tourism destination in the MENA region in its 2015 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report.
The report uses a Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) to measure key dimensions of 141 economies around the world, including tourist and service infrastructure, ict readiness, and prioritisation of travel and tourism.
Qatar secured second place in the report by scoring highly on a supportive business environment (ranking 3rd globally), safety and security (2nd globally), human resources and labour market (14th globally), and price competiveness (19th globally).
Hassan Al Ibrahim, chief tourism development officer at Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA ), said the results were “encouraging, and we are pleased with our results at this early stage of the sector’s development in Qatar”.
“Aside from highlighting our strengths, the index also helps us to identify priority areas for attention and action–for example the need for facilitation of visa requirements, as well as comprehensiveness of travel and tourism data and timeliness of travel and tourism data,” he added.
“These are areas that QTA has started to work on, and that QTA is committed to improving, along with our partners in the private sector as well as other branches of Qatari government.”
Bahrain was third in the MENA region.
On the global index the UAE ranked 24th, Qatar 43rd and Bahrain 60th.
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