Operation Plan

In order to carry out this important task, the Commission was faced with beginning challenges and hurdles to launch an industry that has a steady pace on a scientific basis.  There were a plethora of overlapping jurisdictions and disciplines that relate to tourism and allied sectors that were an obstacle to take the initiative to work.  Hence it became inevitable restructuring of the industry, mapping methodology, and standardization of plans in across the Kingdom so as to match the nature and characteristics its individual region. In order to begin work on scientific bases and promote the development of sustainable tourism according to the latest systems, structures and strategies, SCTA established the National Tourism Development Project that embodies the approach accepted by the Commission itself representing the key development factors: operation, efficiency and achievement.

The National Tourism Development Project aims to develop the tourism sector in the Kingdom in an unambiguous way to sustain its local communities, by way of providing jobs and preserving its environment through an integrated program in close partnership with all parties concerned over a period of twenty years. The first phase was, to develop an overall strategy of the SCTA for the development of national tourism by cleansing the elements of tourism and the obstacles that impede its progress. The second phase was the work program to implement the recommendations of the overall strategy. To achieve a comprehensive qualitative start, the beginning had to be made in regulating the tourism departments within the next five years. To this end the launch of a large number of key initiatives were taken in concert with the overall national development plans and government policies concerning the political, administrative, and economic reforms. This was a collaborative effort with all partners, achieved through hundreds of seminars, meetings and mutual visits. This was followed by the third phase, which included strategies for tourism development at the regional level, and operational plans related to it in direct cooperation with the Kingdom’s regional administrations.