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Article: Bahrain's Tourism Revenue Up
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 10, 1995
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Bahrain's tourism revenues have been increasing steadily due to
the governmental policy of diversification from the heavily oil
dependent economy.
The Gulf Arab archipelago received 500 million dollars from
tourism in 1994, almost four time more than that of 1993, officials
told Xinhua when we visited the country recently.
Nearly 2.6 million tourists visited Bahrain, accounting for more
than half of the 5 million tourists recorded in all six Gulf
Cooperation Council, GCC, countries, which also include Saudi Arabia,
Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates(UAE).
Bahrain is one of the earlist Gulf Arab country to produce and
export crude oil. However, the oil reserve has been ...