UAE first in the Middle East and the 30 globally in the "tourism competitiveness

UAE first in the Middle East and the 30 globally in the "tourism competitiveness

Witnessed travel and tourism sector in the UAE a major development,

which has enhanced the status of the UAE on the world tourism map, to 

occupies ranked 30th globally among 139 countries covered by the report

competitiveness of travel and tourism for the year 2011, issued by the

World Economic Forum entitled "Prospects after the decline."

The UAE has ranked first in the Middle East region in the list of the most developed countries in the travel and tourism sector after gaining an average of 78, 4 points. This came in a media report prepared by the management of the Department of Economic Development Studies and Emirates Today newspaper.

The report estimated "the competitiveness of the travel and tourism", published by the World Economic Forum size contribution travel and tourism sector in the GDP of the UAE during 2010 including representing 16.6%, equivalent to 42.56 billion dollars, with reference to the Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah contribute about 93% of the contributionthe tourism sector in the GDP in the country.

It is likely report that the average growth sector contribution to the GDP of the state to more than 8.1% annually during the period from 2011 and until 2020, indicating that the total number of workers in this sector the state over 429 thousand workers are 13.8% of the total labor market in the country and the report predicts thatgrowing demand for jobs in the tourism sector by 5.7% annually until 2020.

And attributed progress UAE on many tourist destinations of World Sacred despite the lack of resources Emirates natural in the tourism sector to improve the classification of resources cultural as stepped in this sub-index of the place 84 years 2009 to 34th position this year, helped by the unique characteristics in the index familiarity for tourists and travelers where it came fromranked 25 globally.