Kuwait-Mubasher: Kuwait has tailed the list of touristic gulf countries in terms of infrastructure, number of tourists, and revenues from tourism field, however, the government expenditure has exceeded $11 billion, said Nabila M. Al-Anjari, general manager of Leaders Group for Consulting and Development’s .
Nevertheless, Al-Anjari shed light that the tourism in Kuwait has been flourishing in the region due to the country’s peaceful and stable conditions.
Even though Kuwait ranks the second among GCC states for its gross domestic product that reaches $173 billion, it was only able to generate $369 million revenues from tourism.
With such relatively low revenues, Kuwait comes in last among the GCC countries, after Bahrain which earned $1.17 billion, Oman ($1.36 billion), Qatar ($4.6 billion), Saudi Arabia ($8.24 billion) and UAE ($13.97 billion).
Al-Anjari said that Dubai was able to come on as a replacement for the other unstable markets in the region.
