Tourism Ministry stresses the importance of local products

Tourism Ministry stresses the importance of local products

Muscat: His Excellency Salem bin Mohammed Al Mahrouqi, Minister of Heritage and Tourism stressed on the importance of giving priority to local content by the hotel establishments, to achieve sustainability, as well as achieving the government’s aspirations to enrich local communities and markets.

At the opening of the Forum for Enhancing the Competitiveness of National Products and Services in Hotel Establishments, which organized by the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism during the period of 8th -9th May , His Excellency emphasized that, MHT keens to place local content within the indicators of evaluating hotel establishments, as it is important in reviving the traditional heritage that the Sultanate abounds with, as well as enriching the experiences of the visitors to the Sultanate of Oman .

His Excellency added that, the achieving of fruitful partnership between all parties of the hotels sector will contribute to reflect the natureof the sector and its great potential in maximising local content by providing job opportunities and creating sustainability that embodies the goals of Oman Vision 2040.

He stressed that it is time to pay attention to tourism sector policies, maximising local content, and work to strengthen local communities and the national product, as well as partnership with sector