A parliamentary report to the Financial, Economic and Industrial Affairs Committee of the Federal National Council monitored a number of challenges facing the tourism sector in the country, most notably the absence of federal legislation and laws regulating the tourism sector, the development of the tourism product, the availability of the appropriate investment environment to attract foreign capital, and the reliance of each emirate on its legislation local.
The report, which was presented by the committee to the Federal National Council during the session held this morning, to discuss the topic of “the Ministry of Economy’s policy on supporting the tourism sector”, stressed the existence of weakness in marketing the identity of the tourism sector in the country in light of the multiplicity and diversity of local visions in marketing the tourism identity independent of each emirate, stressing that this had a negative impact on the country’s “tourism identity strategy assessment” in 2017 compared to 2019; Due to the absence of initiatives and marketing programs for the unified tourism identity.
The report also monitored a decline in Emiratisation rates in the private tourism sector, as the Emiratisation rate reached (0.07%) in 2020, which is low compared to other sectors, and does not meet the requirements of development projects and foreign investments in the country, in addition to the absence of a unified database for sector statistics. tourism.