The Middle East editor reports on an ambitious campaign to double visitor numbers to the country by 2012
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Syria and the British Media
Syria smoking ban enters into force Syria has become the first Arab state to implement a ban on smoking in public places, such as restaurants and cafes. The decree also outlaws smoking in educational institutions, health centres, sports halls, cinemas and theatres and on public transport. Workers must not smoke during meetings and businesses need to provide well-ventilated areas for smokers.
Syria's crusade for tourism The Middle East editor reports on an ambitious campaign to double visitor numbers to the country by 2012
“Damascus, Syria: Road to enchantment” was the title of a long article. “On his first visit to the ravishing and extraordinary city of Damascus, Tim Jepson soon casts aside his preconceptions”. Wrote the Telegraph. Tim Jepson wrote “Well, I did visit Damascus, and found it a ravishing city, with an extraordinary history, extraordinary sights and extraordinary people – kind, cultured, tolerant, hospitable, courteous and well-educated”. “During the four-hours-and a-bit-flight (yes, it really isn’t that far), I launched into guidebook introductions and my imagination was immediately fired”. He went on to write “I loved Damascus for this and any other number of things and will go back. I will go back for more of the city, but also for Syria’s other unsung treasures: for the ancient town of Aleppo, for Palmyra, a vast Roman town half-hidden in the desert, and, above all for the Crac des Chevaliers, the majestic Crusader fortress Lawrence of Arabia called simply the finest castle in the world”.
Food and drink editor Rahul Jacob, wrote in the Financial Times-travel, “The best journeys offer us the gift of time travel. We step into a giant, elongated capsule and step out of an airport in another place and another time. That’s the promise, but so few places deliver because globalisation and Holiday Inns have a way of getting to places before we do”. “ Syria is in vogue today because it offers citadels that look as if they might be a stage set for yet another film about the Crusades…”. “It was the city’s biblical past that I wanted to explore as a lapsed Christian”. “Instead of discovering religion in Damascus, I am ashamed to report that I fell in love with shopping”. “Dangerously addictive” “Like opening Pandora’s box, once you start exploring Syria there is no chance of closing the lid, says Barnaby Rogerson”, Financial Times-Travel-Middle East- 20/ December/ 2008.
“Revelation on the road to Damascus” “Peter Hughes is overwhelmed by the sites-and the hospitality shown to him in a country he had expected to be difficult”, wrote the Telegraph. “Damascus has had a corner in conversions for 2,000 years, since Saul of Tarsus saw the light and metamorphosed into St. Paul the Apostle. I too underwent a transformation on the road to Damascus, not Pauline exactly, but definitely opinion-changing. My revelation was Syria”, wrote Peter Hughes in the Telegraph Travel, Saturday, April 12, 2008. Click here to see our next group tour to Syria. Call Us:UK 07944043599 |
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