English abstract
The world witnessed an unparalleled growth in international tourism during the period 1950-2005, as the number of tourists increased from 25 million visitors in 1950 to more than 800 million visitors in 2005, an average annual growth rate of 6.5% during the period. The statistics of the World Tourism Organization for the year 2014 indicate that the number of tourists in the world has achieved a growth of 4.7% in light of the challenges of globalization and the liberalization of international intra-trade, in particular trade in services, especially the tourism industry. Various countries have realized that the tourism industry is a distinct path to economic and social development. It has become competing in increasing advertising credits in specific tourism markets, which has developed in its comprehensiveness until it has become an integrated and comprehensive tourism activation, such as cultural and artistic tourism, medical religious tourism, sports tourism, conference tourism, festivals, and the Sultanate, like other countries in the world, its interest in tourism falls within the national strategy to diversify sources of income National, where tourism is chosen as one of the sources of income diversification as it is the economic lifeline in many societies.
