Almotamar.net - Yemen is at present building and developing 17 tourist projects all over the country at a cost estimated at one million and 476 thousand dollars. The projects plan is part of an investment programme the Yemeni government is carrying out up to the end of this year.

In its most recent report the almotamar.net obtained the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation said those projects mainly aimed at to develop the infrastructure of a number of tourist facilities varied between desert environmental rural and mountainous tourism in addition to development of sea and diving tourism and the development of treatment tourism.

According to the report the projects include the building of a tourist database costing one million Yemeni riyals and the study of dome islands, their renovation and drawing up plans for the lands allocated for tourist development in addition to tourist survey and qualification of tourist police.