Ingredients Of Tourism Development And Its Impact In Achieving Economic Diversification In Iraq Religious Tourism Model

Abstract

Abstract

Tourism is today one of the most developed industries in the world, having become one of the most important sectors in international trade, as this sector has become a productive sector of great importance that contributes to increasing national income, and a source of hard currencies as its revenues amounted to hundreds of billions of dollars, and the number of tourists reached hundreds millions, in addition to this the role of tourism in the development of private sector institutions and non-governmental organizations, after the expansion of the sectors and services concerned with them, and the enormous infrastructure required to support them such as (transportation, banks, financial institutions, advertising and advertising institutions ... etc.), which made this sector is a target for economic development programs.

Iraq possesses the elements of tourism development, as it is one of the most important countries in which the terrain is varied, in addition to having a civilization that is thousands of years old, and besides that Iraq contains the most important holy shrines for the prophets and the righteous saints spread throughout the country, which makes Iraq one of the most important tourist attractions in the event The development of this pioneering sector in the process of economic development, which can be one of the most important economic resources of the country, in addition to the oil whose prices are changing from time to time.