The next chapter for Qatar tourism

QATAR has launched the Next Chapter of its National Tourism Sector Strategy 2030, which charts the next five years of the tourism sector’s growth in Qatar. The bold and transformative plan was announced by His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, Qatar’s Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, at the UNWTO’s official celebration of World Tourism Day, which is being hosted this year in Doha.

The Next Chapter defines what #Qatar will be known for as a tourist destination, and guides the development of products, services, and experiences that will bring this vision to life. His Excellency also announced that in the coming months, the sector’s governance will be reorganised around a new National Tourism Council that is empowered to focus and integrate the efforts of key stakeholders and facilitators in ways that will provide clarity, direction, and momentum for the #tourism sector’s improvement and growth.

The Next Chapter aims to attract 5.6 million visitors to Qatar annually by 2023, double the number which the country welcomed in 2016. It also aims to achieve a 72% occupancy rate across all hotel establishments, through a combination of increasing demand and diversifying the country’s tourist accommodation offering.

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Guinness Storehouse named Europe’s top attraction

#DUBLIN’S Guinness Storehouse has been named Europe’s leading tourist attraction in the World Travel Awards, hailed as ‘Oscars’ of the travel industry. 

Shortlisted alongside some of Europe’s most recognizable attractions – the Acropolis, Athens; London’s Buckingham Palace, and Rome’s Colosseum – it was Ireland’s top tourist spot that won the largest public vote.

As Europe’s leading tourist attraction, the #GuinnessStorehouse will be put forward for the World Travel Awards grand final, where it is in the running to be named as the world’s leading tourist attraction.

Since its opening in 2000, the Guinness Storehouse – a seven-storey treasure trove of all things Guinness – has had more than 13 million visitors, who discover what goes into the making of each pint, learn how to pour the perfect pint in the Guinness Academy, step into the world of Guinness advertising, and get a 360-degree view of Dublin from the city’s highest bar.

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A stay with John, Paul, George & Ringo

MILLENNIUM HOTELS AND RESORTS (MHR) has bought a Beatles-inspired hotel in Liverpool's increasingly popular Cavern Quarter.

Housed in the 19th century Grade II listed Central Buildings and adjacent to the iconic #CavernClub, the hotel has 110 bedrooms.

CEO of Millennium Hotels and Resorts, Aloysius Lee said: ‘#Liverpool is a leading tourist destination that continues to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors annually. It maintains its prominent stance by investing in an array of forward-thinking regeneration projects, while firmly retaining its #Beatles legacy.

‘Being the only one of its kind, the Hard Days Night Hotel offers a Beatles experience like no-other and we are confident that our guests, particularly from countries including China, USA, Canada, and Europe, will be excited by the choice of this latest acquisition.’

Go Holiday editor David Kernek comments: This might be the very best hotel in Liverpool, if not England, but I’d rather spend the night on a bench in the docks than check in to a shrine to the Beatles. Such was the North-South divide, there was only one band worthy of the name for Baby-Boomers raised in London: The Rolling Stones. Many of us dismissed the Beatles as a mere pop group … and do so to this day!

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