{"id":398744,"date":"2020-06-17T16:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=398744"},"modified":"2020-06-17T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:26:49","slug":"information-minister-participates-in-arab-ministerial-council-virtual-meeting-for-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/information-minister-participates-in-arab-ministerial-council-virtual-meeting-for-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Minister participates in Arab Ministerial Council virtual meeting for Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu(<strong>SONNA<\/strong>)-Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Mohamed Abdi Hayer &#8216;Mareye&#8217; on Wednesday participated in a virtual meeting of Arab Ministerial Council for Tourism, SONNA reported.<\/p>\n<p>Arab Ministers discussed mechanisms to confront challenges imposed by the outbreak of COVID-19 as the tourism and travel sector represents 14.2 percent of the Arab countries\u2019 GDP, where it contributes significantly to advancing the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Arab Organization for Tourism said in a statement earlier that an estimate losses in tourism revenues is about $25 billion, airline companies\u2019 revenues at around $8 billion, and tourism investments at $12.96 billion.<\/p>\n<p>About one million permanent jobs and hundreds of thousands of seasonal jobs could be canceled in the tourism sector according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>On his part, Somali Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Mohamed Abdi Hayer urged the Ministerial Council to consider all possible means to revive tourism, despite continuing the combat against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-398746 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-06-17-at-13.47.45.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-06-17-at-13.47.45.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-06-17-at-13.47.45-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-06-17-at-13.47.45-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-06-17-at-13.47.45-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: SONNA\/ Asharq Al-Awsat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu(SONNA)-Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Mohamed Abdi Hayer &#8216;Mareye&#8217; on Wednesday participated in a virtual meeting of Arab Ministerial Council for Tourism, SONNA reported. Arab Ministers discussed mechanisms to confront challenges imposed by the outbreak of COVID-19 as the tourism and travel sector represents 14.2 percent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":398745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398747,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398744\/revisions\/398747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}