Wrong Goals in Arab World Tourism Development
The usually upbeat Arab News.com was, as usual, upbeat in projecting solid growth for Middle East tourism, even as it writes of 2011 because of home-grown revolutions against Arab dictators.
Quite literally banking on the area’s historic and religious sites, its world-class shopping, infrastructure and growing wealth, the site reports that “the tourism industry is resolutely optimistic.”
Quoting a spokesperson from Starwood Hotels & Resorts, which inc


