Headline: Much potential in the Syrian tourism industry Source: Euromoney Date: July 2001 Author: Philip Moore Although relatively underdeveloped, tourism is already Syria's second-biggest foreign exchange earner. With infrastructural and personnel development it could be even more lucrative.
European visitor numbers also starting to increase, and attests to the potential of tourism. The cities of Aleppo and Damascus both lay claim to being the oldest continually inhabited urban districts in the world, although historians seem to give this accolade to Aleppo (the capital of northern Syria), which was established as the capital of the Amorite kingdom of Yamkhad around 1780BC. |