• Enables the whole industry to get together
• Deal with common issues by means of discussion and dialogue
• Present and promote products and services to the trade and the public
• Create new and strengthen existing contacts
• Negotiate and conclude business deals
• Allow the normally fragmented tourism industry to coalesce and collectively project and image of a major integrate and productive sector of the economy.
• Help strengthen the Kingdom’s position as a regional economic leader with an increasingly open and diversified economy, an important consideration in the post-WTO accession period.
• Reinforce the credibility of the Kingdom’s tourism development policy, as well as sending a positive signal to the community at large about the true nature, scope and contribution to the economy and society.