Proceedings of the 12th Meeting of
The COMCEC Tourism Working Group
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5. Success Stories of the Member States
5.1. Afghanistan
On behalf of Afghanistan, Mr. Ramin ATEEQZADA, Tourism Marketing Director from Ministry
of Information, Culture and Tourism of Afghanistan made a presentation on the Sustainable
Destination Management Strategies in the Afghanistan.
At the beginning of his presentation, he informed the participants of Afghanistan tourism
potential. He also mentioned about Afghan government’s strategies for the development of
tourism industry. He gave information on the axes of this marketing strategy as the following:
 Institutionalizing the culture of tourism and developing domestic tourism.
 Supporting and strengthening the private sector,
 Promotion of Afghanistan as a rich, ancient and the most influential culture and
civilization in engaging with the countries at the region,
 Strategy of tourism for developing tourism industry on base of market research and
analyses,
 Dividing tourism resources and adjusting tourism programs for attracting
international tourists,
 Capacity Building,
 Developing Relations with international organizations, Domestic tourism agencies for
stable tourism development.
Lastly, he put forward following suggestions:
- Developing Afghanistan Tourism Industry, such as, Capacity Building Programs for the
Afghan Tourism departments
- Supporting Afghan Tourism Department in attracting more domestic and foreign tourists,
- Organizing training programs
- Developing tourism Guides,
- Promoting tourism facilities,
-Inviting Afghan tourism employees to different international programs to learn more on
tourism affairs.
5.2. Turkey
Gürsel GÜNDOĞDU, expert from Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, made a
presentation on destination management experience of Turkey.
At the outset, he gave information on tourism development process and destination
management principles. He also shared the Turkey Tourism Strategy’s (2023) main objectives
as the following: