http://www.english.hadhramaut.info STC approves tourism development executive program [The Source: www.sabanews.net - 9/9/2008] The Supreme Tourism Council (STC) approved Monday the executive program for the tourism development plan. During its meeting chaired by Prime Minister Ali Mujawar, the STC referred the executive program to the cabinet for discussion and taking the necessary decision. The program aims to develop the tourism sector includes 49 projects, 44 of which are concerning tourism development and five projects for strategic development, in addition to the environmental and marketing studies. Moreover, the program contains the executive visions for the projects' implementation, standards of the economic evaluation and desired goals as well as the promotion tourism plan, which is a complement part of the tourism development plan's programs. The plan seeks for activating tourism in the various sites and location in the country via providing them with all the requisite tourism services, varying the tourism product, encouraging small-scale enterprise establishment and including the local society into the tourism industry. The meeting also agreed initially on the tourism media strategy conditioned to be revised by the ministries of information and tourism. Additionally, the council asserted the importance of extending invitations by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to ambassadors of the tourism-exported European and Asian countries to attend a meeting with Ministers of Interior and Tourism to brief them on the last security developments in the country and to urge them to repeal or amend their countries' warnings on travel to Yemen. The council also indicated to the significant role the Yemeni embassies abroad should play to show the safe and stable environment in the country and to promote the tourism here by any possible mean.