The role of tourism in achieving sustainable development in the Arab world

Abstract EN

Today, the tourism sector has become one of the vital and alternative sectors to achieve sustainable development goals at the global and Arab levels, and given the natural, cultural, archaeological, historical, tourism components and qualifications that the Arab world possesses that develop the role of tourism in sustainable development, we tried in this study to describe the role of the Arab tourism sector through its contribution to some economic indicators and analysis of its competitiveness, and we concluded that the political instability and security deterioration in some Arab countries such as Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Libya, along with weak tourist infrastructure, technological delays, and low quality of tourism services, especially financial ones, led to the weakness of its sustainable development role.