The Arab Tourism Ministerial Council has recently approved the set up of Arab Tourism Organization to work within the framework of the Council. The Council referred a number of decisions to the Organization in the field of investment integration in the Arab world to be carried out through the establishment of joint Arab companies. The Chairman of the Organization's Founding Commission Bandar bin Fahd Al Fuhaid said that the Organization has contracted with a company specializing in tourism marketing and services to issue the first Arab encyclopedia containing tourism information on Arab countries.
