The Middle East and North Africa Recreation and Tourism Board (Minalak), the trade association for entertainment companies in the MENA region, has announced that it has completed its risk assessment phase and is ready to launch again as a rapid response to the reopening strategy for recreational facilities in the region.
The Council affirmed its implementation of a strong reopening plan, taking into account the new health and safety standards and social divergence approved by the UAE government, where the Health and Safety Committee of the Council formulated a set of recommended standards and procedures and distributed them to all recreational facilities to be implemented before the restart, which is Tourist attractions in the Middle East, which include parks, gardens, family entertainment centers and cinemas, will help to attract customers again after more than two months' closure.
The most important of these procedures are to provide electronic doors to ensure entry and payment without touch, the presence of thermal doors to detect cases of high temperatures before entering recreational facilities, limiting the capacity to receive visitors, the need to keep masks and gloves during the time of the visit, cleaning and sterilization around the clock, Besides maintaining social divergence and the presence of sterilizers and indicative signs that always remind visitors to follow these instructions.
In turn, Silvio Lidetech, Vice-Chairman of Minalac, said, “The Corona Virus crisis has changed the whole world and our industry is no exception, so consumers will have to continue to socially move away from all public facilities until the situation improves, and with governments easing restrictions and enabling our industry to stand on our feet, it becomes Our collective responsibility is to ensure that we all take appropriate measures for an extended period of time so that we do not need to go back to the previous stages again. "
Sheikha Mounira Al-Sabah, a member of the Board of Directors (Minalak) said: "We will have to increase the procedures for sterilization and cleaning although it was always our priority before the Coffed Crisis 19, and hand sanitizers will be installed throughout the entertainment centers, and the employees will wear protective tools such as masks and gloves, And we will purify the place around the clock while reducing the capacity of the guests, and we have provided our employees with health safety training for guests and entry instructions, we will offer special packages for people in the front line and their families as rewards for their hard work, we will also have competitive prices to attract our customers
It is worth noting that the travel and tourism sector contributes 8.7% of the region's GDP and supports 5.4 million jobs. In North Africa, travel and tourism account for 11.2 percent of the region's gross domestic product, supports 5.6 million or 10.4 percent of all jobs, according to research by the World Trade Center, and leisure entertainment factors play a greater role in the contribution of GDP as well as employment.
Research shows that theme parks, amusement parks and family entertainment centers contribute the most to these slaves, and families spend more money on these attractions on horseback riding and hotel accommodations, food and entertainment than other tourism sectors. However, the Corona virus that has forced all theme parks and parks Family entertainment centers are closing in the second week of March 2020, and are likely to subside soon with the strict precautionary measures taken by all countries of the world.