Opaz pays great attention to tap Duqm tourism potential

Opaz pays great attention to tap Duqm tourism potential

Muscat: The Public Authority for Special Economic Zones and Free Zones (Opaz), represented by the Special Economic Zone at Duqm (Sezad), pays great attention to the tourism sector and developing this sector in the region by providing appropriate investment environment and infrastructure needed for the projects. Engineer Abdullah bin Salem Al-Hakamani, Director of the Technical Affairs Department in the Special Economic Zone in Duqm, said that the efforts made by the Authority have borne fruit in increasing the number of investments in the tourism sector, as more than 30 usufruct contracts have been signed so far for large tourism projects, with an investment volume of OMR526. 286 million. He pointed out that a large number of these projects have been implemented until this year, including the establishment and completion of a number of tourism projects such as resorts, hotels, apartments and other projects. He said that the number of hotel rooms in the Duqm Special Zone and other parts of the wilayat reached approximately 2, 500 hotel rooms, varying between luxury apartments, tourist resorts, and multi-purpose rooms. He explained that the economic zone has witnessed, in the past nine months of the current year, an increase in the number of