المنطلقات السياحية لمحافظة البصرة و آفاق تطويرها

الملخص EN

Tourism is considered a human behaviour and economic activity that has an essential significance after liberalization of foreign trade, particularly services trade.

The tourism activities has grown rapidly due to the achieved economic advantages as an important source of income in one hand and also the social benefits resulting from tourism on the other hand.

In addition, any individual needs tourism as a recreational activity.

However, the tourism industry has emerged as an international phenomenon that has crucial temporal and spatial dimensions which motivated writers and thinkers to set studies and researches that focus on the tourism impact on both tourist and host country.

Hence, the tourism became an international phenomenon linked to the extent of nation's advancement and people progress and development of human society's abilities to exploit leisure time ideally.

Also, it is a criterion for development of relations between societies.

Basrah governorate is one of the most important cities in Iraq, Economically, geographically, culturally, historically, and religiously.

It has civilized legacy that could catalyze its developmental take off due to a number of natural factors and potentials such as palm forests and marshes - It is the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that constitute Shat-al-Arab River.

Moreover, Basrah has other resources like oil and natural gas, it is one of the most commercial and industrial city in Iraq.

Finally, it is featured by its temperate climate in winter season and a strategic location as a sea border city in Iraq with three countries, namely Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.