4) Qatar

Quatar

1) This little Arab State on the Persian Gulf, independent from U.K. from 1971, had been an important commercial place; today it is a wolrd-important center of petrol and natural gas industry with the highest per capita GDP in the world. With a young industrial economy, we have no examples of industrial heritage; there are industrial cities without historical aspects.

However, we could suggest trips to Ras Laffan, with the important port, to Mesaieed, the “capital” of petrol products, and Dukhan City, an interesting example of industrial place with attention to development of that area as a natural reserve (http://english.mofa.gov.qa/details.cfm?id=56).

But there are important cultural aspects thanks to economical resoureces supported by Ministry of Energy and Industry (http://www.mei.gov.qa/home-en/). In partnership with the state authority for tourism, (http://www.qatartourism.gov.qa/pillars/index/1/culture/232) the Ministry supports the most important cultural projects; we suggest at least:

1. the Musum of Islamic Art (http://www.mia.org.qa/), about history of Islamic Religion in the wolrd;
2. the Qatar National Museum (at present closed for renovation);
3. the State Museum of Orientalists, a large collection of pictures about Orientalism;
4. the Arab modern art Museum, which is also a history museum.

We have to add, that authorization to visit some museums can be obtained from Qatar musum authority (http://www.qma.com.qa/en/). You can see a list also at http://english.mofa.gov.qa/details.cfm?id=26. .

An important aspect of tourism in Qatar is the industrial expos travel; state organizes regular events and meetings; at present, for example Middle East railway opportunities (http://www.isocarp.org/index.php?id=11729) and Building World class stadiums (http://www.aeconline.ae/building-world-class-stadiums-2012/company.html).

Qatar Science and technology Park (http://www.qstp.org.qa/output/page7.asp) is a private foundation dedicated to foreign stakeholders, universities, competitors, companies which are interested to search businnes possibilities in Qatar.

2) the industries sector

The industrial sector represent the 64% of gross domestic product.

The governament of Qatar, has many projects in manifacturing, aluminum, plastic and wood in faciliting entrepreneurs wit the energy supply at low cost.

3) The Qatar tourism authority is actively promoting the country as a quality destination for

business and leisure traveller's.

Qatar proudly hosted leading travel and tourism business rapresentatives, and a large

contigent of international media.

A golden opportunity to develop a robust and sustanable travel industry

which will bring benefits to the country's economy is the 2022 Fifa World Cup.

The Fifa World Cup has already sparked interess among investitors in different

tourist categories including travel accomodation and travel retail, and the years to come

will see significant tourism infrastructures developments geared towards this event.

For Qatar it will be crucial to be able to sustauin the boom in tourist arrivals triggered

by the event and avoid a challenging post-World Cup hangover.