Sanaأ¢â‚¬â„¢s Summer Festival Launched
www.yementimes.com Marked with huge attendance, the Tourism Promotion Authority launched the activities of the Second Sana'a Summer Festival. The festival aims to boost and promote the cultural tourism in Yemen as the country enjoys rich and diversified history stretching over 2000 years. Tourism Minister Nabil Al-Faqih told media outlets that Sana'a festival is a massage of love and peace to the world, adding that similar festivals will be staged in other cities and governorates like Qarnaw festival in Al-Jawf, Al-Baldah in Hadramout, and the Tourism Festival in Ibb. He also added that these festivals are organized annually. This year's festival is made open and free of charge before all. Families are allowed to attend the activities, which include cultural and sport activities, motor cycling and glider flying by French teams, together with folkloric and artistic shows to be presented by public bands from Hadramout, Sana'a and Tihama. Moreover, the festival, due to be staged in Al-Sab'een Park, will comprise public sports, competitions, and dolls shows representing famous Yemeni personalities and kings, accompanied with cinematic shows for family, youth, and children. The Chinese team is going to make acrobatic shows and other activities. Al-Faqih pointed out that such festivals come in line with the recent tendencies of tourism, wherein cultural heritage and specialty can be shown to the maximum, hinting that the cultural tourism has become popular nowadays. He told the Yemeni News Agency, Saba, that these festivals aim to stimulate and activate the environmental and cultural tourism, as well, to encourage Gulf visitors, who represent the highest percentage of tourists over the few passing years, to come to the country. They also motivate Yemeni expatriates to visit their homeland and help the revival of the tourism in Yemen. Furthermore, the different festivals held across Yemen will help alleviate and promote tourism especially after Mareb's recent terrorist operation that targeted an envoy of Spanish tourists and killed nine as well as two Yemenis. Some observers believe these festivals will make the wheel of tourism run again and give a further boost to tourism in Yemen.
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