Employing tourism to provide job opportunities in Iraq as a right of citizenship (according to investment and tourism laws)

Abstract

Tourism cannot be a factor for development unless this is achieved in a sustainable manner, and countries, including Iraq, attach great importance to increasing and diversifying their investments in tourist attractions, because these investments are the effective tool for moving the tourism sector, so the latter is of great importance and the authorities are working To encourage and promote it to achieve sustainable tourism development. Tourism is a complex human phenomenon and its importance increases day after day to be the locomotive that drives the development of other sectors and an important strategic alternative in many developed and developing countries alike, and since tourism is a model of diverse and renewed relations between the peoples of the world and their civilizations through processes During its development and investments, tourism investment has emerged as a vital and effective element in achieving this desired purpose, due to the procedures it includes carried out by the responsible party or by decision-makers with the aim of attracting tourists and working on the sustainability of the tourism sector. Iraq, like other countries, attaches great importance to increasing and diversifying its investments in tourist attractions because these investments are an effective tool that contributes in one way or another to achieving sustainable tourism development. Tourism investment plays a strategic role and an effective source in the development of the tourism sector due to the economic, social, cultural and environmental benefits it achieves on the national and local levels of tourist countries. Therefore, tourism investment is one of the fundamental developments and fertile areas within the framework of Iraq’s endeavor to advance and improve its sector. Tourism, and here, for further clarification, we pose the following question: If tourism investment is one of the prospects for economic diversification, how can it be devoted to activating sustainable tourism development in Iraq?