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Syria Boasts Huge Rise in Tourism
By Micah Halpern

Tuesday August 24, 2010

I've Been Thinking:

Tourism is up in Syria this year. The increase is 55% over last year at this time. That means 5.1 million tourists have visited Syria so far in 2010. Truly, an unbelievable number.

About 1 million of the tourists are themselves Syrians living abroad. About 3 million are Arabs from other countries. The rest are true foreigners, people from other countries.

An increase of such huge dimensions has to be attributed to something. The best I can guess is-the new attitude of the world-at-large towards Syria resulting from Syria's new openness to the West.

Syria's decision to entertain overtures from the West has resulted in tourism that has surged into the millions. More than people, the Syrians say that $5 billion US dollars in revenue has been raised.

Now for the billion dollar question: Will this improved economic tool further influence Syria's foreign policy?

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4 June 2017 12:13 PM in Thoughts


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