جريدة صيدونيانيوز.نت / In pictures: The Secretary-General of the Medcities Josep Molina visited the Saudi in the municipality of Sidon

congratulating the completion of the project of the tourism strategy for the ancient city of Sidon
2022-03-10

Sidonianews.net

Ghassan Al-Zaatari and Raifa Al-Mallah / Saida municipality Media

10-3-2022

The Mayor of Saida, Eng. Muhammad Al-Saudi, received in his office at the Municipal Palace the delegation of the Medcities Organization in Barcelona, Spain, headed by the Secretary-General, Mr. Josep Canal Molina, and the membership of the organization’s director, Mr. Oriol Barba, who was accompanied on the visit by the Director of the Knowledge Transfer Center in the Union of Municipalities of Al-Fayhaa Tripoli, Eng. Abdullah Abdel Wahab, And the director of the union, Dima Homsi.

The Saudi held a meeting with the visiting delegation in the hall of the late Rifqi Abu Zahr in the municipality, in the presence of the members of the municipal council: Eng. Mustafa Hegazy (the municipality coordinator with the organization and the municipality of Barcelona), Mrs. Wafaa Wahba Shuaib, Eng. Mahmoud Shreiteh, the advisor to the Saudi president, Eng. Muhammad Al-Zein, and the tourism strategy development team for the old city , which is supported by the organization and in partnership with the Sidon Municipality and the Hariri Foundation for Sustainable Human Development.

The Saudi engineer welcomed the Secretary General of the Medcities Organization in the city of Sidon, praising the joint cooperation and support provided by the organization to the Sidon Municipality, especially in the sustainable development projects of the city.

He said: The municipality of Sidon has been an active member of the Mediterranean Cities Organization since 2011. Undoubtedly, the visit of Secretary General Molina means a lot to Sidon and its municipality, so welcome.

For his part, Mr. Molina indicated that Medcities includes Lebanese municipalities, including Sidon, and we are following together several urban development projects. Our visit to Sidon is to inspect the works that have been completed within the project of the tourism strategy for the old city of Sidon, as well as to see the various needs.

He added: There is a great development in Sidon with regard to the project of the tourism strategy for ancient Sidon, which is being implemented in stages, and I congratulate the Saudi president and the assistant team for what has been accomplished in this field, as well as the efforts made to place tourism in ancient Sidon on the global map.

After that, Eng. Hegazy, Mrs. Shoaib and the tourism strategy team: Lawyer Ahmed Kassab, Ms. Noura Samoura, and Eng. Ghaleb Kassab gave a brief presentation of the works that have been accomplished, most notably: updating the signage of monuments and tourist attractions and providing them with an introductory QR code bar for the tourist attraction, and the establishment of the 6000-year-old Saida logo. Living heritage, it was installed opposite the Sidon sea castle and next to it is a promotional tourist center for the archaeological and tourist attractions in old Sidon.

Then it was a field tour of what had been accomplished within the framework of the tourism strategy project.

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Sidoniannews.net newspaper / In pictures: The Secretary-General of the Medcities Organization, Josep Molina, visited the Saudi in the municipality of Sidon, congratulating the completion of the project of the tourism strategy for the ancient city of Sidon