The Importance Of Tourism In Qatar

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TOURISM
Tourism accounts for 11.4 percent of Qatar 's current GDP. In 2004, the government announced a plan to invest 15 billion USD in tourism projects. In 2005 the country received three and a quarter million of tourists, a number that will grow to one and a half million by the year 2011. In the same period the number of 4- and 5-star hotel rooms will increase from 2800 to 16,500.
Qatar aims at what the Qatar Tourism Authority calls 'sustainable tourism '. For that purpose a number of cultural projects has been realized in Doha: the Qatar National Museum, the Museum of Islamic Art (designed by the architect I.M. Pei), the Qatar National Library (architect Aerator Isozaki) and the Qatar Photography Museum (architect Santiago Calatrava). With the construction of luxury beach resorts at al-Fareej and al-Mafjar, development of Qatar 's long coastline has finally begun.

HEALTHCARE
Health sector of Qatar has come an extensive way since the country 's first sanatorium opened its doors almost 50 years ago. Today, the sector boasts the most advanced medical equipment and highly qualified staff, a countrywide system of hospitals and healthcare centres, as well as a cardiology department that is referred to by outside specialists as "one of the finest in the world". And as per the report from the general secretariat of the GCC minister of health, Qatar enjoys the region 's minimum maternal mortality rate.

Preventive Health Care Services
The precautionary Health Department

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