The correlation between tourism agreements and modern trends in the Iraqi tourism industry (applied research)

Abstract

The research aims to identify tourism agreements and modern trends in the tourism industry and determine the level of correlation between tourism agreements and modern trends in the Iraqi tourism industry. The problem of the research was represented by a state of lack of clarity and ambiguity that plagues the tourism agreements regulating tourism work in Iraq, and that work in this framework is still not it is clear and lacks the methodological and scientific situation that is supposed to prevail in such a sensitive topic. As for the modern trends in the Iraqi tourism and travel industry, the problem arises through the lack of complete knowledge of the departments responsible for the tourism sector regarding the most prominent developments in this industry, and what methods should be adopted. In order to reach a state of tourism performance in which modern, advanced standards are adhered to, many conclusions can be reached, the most important of which is that the subject of concluding tourism agreements in Iraq is characterized by the multiplicity of parties and overlapping powers between more than one ministry, agency and institution, which of course results from the impact of these agreements on More than one security, economic, social and diplomatic level and aspect, and such overlap requires a lot of coordination, communication and cooperation efforts in a way that gives priority to developing the tourism sector and concluding agreements that have many positive effects. The state of fluctuation that the regulatory body responsible for the tourism sector has gone through has also affected the Authority. Ministry and institution, in the form, level and content of tourism agreements concluded over successive stages of time. Consequently, the sector lacked solid agreements with a developed tourism country, and most of the agreements concluded with regional countries were limited to specific tourism activities such as religious tourism activity. From the above, the research reached many recommendations, the most important of which is the necessity of building an independent and clear administrative form within the government apparatus that is responsible for tourism agreements. Its responsibility is to build plans and propose programs and strategies for concluding tourism agreements and submit them to the various government agencies, as well as working to select negotiating delegations according to professional standards. They are included in training courses that precede the negotiation process, through which they are provided with skills and knowledge related to understanding the tourism activity and its general details in order to create effectiveness for the negotiation teams during the negotiation process that leads to achieving the greatest benefit for the Iraqi tourism activity.