Authority undertaking tourism dev’t project
ADDIS ABABA - Integrated tourism development project is being implemented at a cost of 5.1 million birr with a view to preserving ancient heritages in four selected states, the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritages said.
Speaking yesterday at an ongoing heritage management workshop in Gondar town, inventory and documentation deputy coordinator with the authority, Solomon Eshete said the pilot project is being carried out in Amhara, Tigray, Oromia and Harari states. The fund for the implementation of the project was secured from the World Bank in loan.
Preservation and repair of historic sites, registration of relics, information gathering and organization as well as promotion of handicrafts are components of the project being implemented until 2007, he said.
The project sets out to bring considerable economic and social benefits by preserving and developing attractions in Axum and Gondar towns, he said.
The project’s handicrafts promotion component is believed to help local people draw due benefits from the tourism industry development, he added.
Some 400 people trained in handicrafts at centres established in Addis Ababa, Gondar, Axum and Harar towns have now been engaged in the production of prototypes, Solomon said.
He said the handicraft products have won acceptance in the American and European markets and several exporters are requesting the products.
Computerized relics registration is being carried out, he said adding that some 50 experts are trained and are currently working on classifying the relics.
Meanwhile, the Afar State Culture and Tourism Information Bureau said the number of foreign tourists visiting various heritages in the state is increasing from time to time.
Tourism department head with the bureau, Mohammed Indris told ENA Tuesday that 133 tourists visited the heritages in 1996 E.C, while the number increased to 312 in 1998 E.C.
He attributed the increase in the number of tourists visited the state to the promotion work carried out jointly by the bureau and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Dalol, Ertale and other historical and natural heritages are among the sites visited by the tourists, he said.
Most of the tourists came from France, Switzerland, Italy, America, Japan and Australia, Mohammed added.
(ENA)
Speaking yesterday at an ongoing heritage management workshop in Gondar town, inventory and documentation deputy coordinator with the authority, Solomon Eshete said the pilot project is being carried out in Amhara, Tigray, Oromia and Harari states. The fund for the implementation of the project was secured from the World Bank in loan.
Preservation and repair of historic sites, registration of relics, information gathering and organization as well as promotion of handicrafts are components of the project being implemented until 2007, he said.
The project sets out to bring considerable economic and social benefits by preserving and developing attractions in Axum and Gondar towns, he said.
The project’s handicrafts promotion component is believed to help local people draw due benefits from the tourism industry development, he added.
Some 400 people trained in handicrafts at centres established in Addis Ababa, Gondar, Axum and Harar towns have now been engaged in the production of prototypes, Solomon said.
He said the handicraft products have won acceptance in the American and European markets and several exporters are requesting the products.
Computerized relics registration is being carried out, he said adding that some 50 experts are trained and are currently working on classifying the relics.
Meanwhile, the Afar State Culture and Tourism Information Bureau said the number of foreign tourists visiting various heritages in the state is increasing from time to time.
Tourism department head with the bureau, Mohammed Indris told ENA Tuesday that 133 tourists visited the heritages in 1996 E.C, while the number increased to 312 in 1998 E.C.
He attributed the increase in the number of tourists visited the state to the promotion work carried out jointly by the bureau and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Dalol, Ertale and other historical and natural heritages are among the sites visited by the tourists, he said.
Most of the tourists came from France, Switzerland, Italy, America, Japan and Australia, Mohammed added.
(ENA)
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