MP Suggest special health insurance for visitors

MP Khalil Al-Saleh suggested imposing a special health insurance on visitors temporarily visiting Kuwait in a bid to prevent negative utilization of local health facilities.

Traffic fines payment necessary for Civil ID renewal

Expatriates in Kuwait are required to pay pending traffic fines before they are able to renew their Civil IDs, a local daily reported yesterday quoting Interior Ministry sources with knowledge of an agreement reached between the ministry’s traffic and civil information departments on that regard.

The decision is “one of many” to be announced soon in which the General Traffic Department looks to force delayed fines by connecting their payments with issuance of transactions at other state departments including the Ministry of Electricity and Water, Ministry of Communications and Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, reported Al-Rai daily.

Kuwait placed last in GCC tourism

“Kuwait is not as interested as other GCC states in the tourism sector”, said Nabila Al-Anjeri, General Manager of Leaders Group Company for Consultancy and Development (Leaders Group), pointing out that tourism was responsible for 28 percent of the world’s services revenues and 11 percent of the world’s economic output. “All other GCC states have achieved progress in terms of their ranking in world tourism while Kuwait is retreating every year”, she underlined. 

In the company’s monthly report, AlAnjeri added that according to the Travel And Tourism Competitiveness Indicator for 2013, Kuwait came last amongst GCC states and 101 out of 140 countries worldwide. She added that according to the Conde Nast Travel Magazine, USA, unlike Dubai, Kuwait does not have the infrastructure needed to attract tourists. In its 2013 report on non-attractive countries for tourism such as Pakistan, Angola and Togo, the magazine placed Kuwait fifth in the world pointing that, except for restaurants and shopping malls, it lacks recreational facilities. Al-Anjeri also pointed that the strength of Kuwait’s currency compared to dollar was one of the many obstacles tourists may face as they would have to exchange $3.5 per Kuwaiti dinar. She added that there were six points to be taken into consideration on the world’s tourism competiveness scales: Laws and regulations that would attract visitors and foreigners Qualified infrastructure like airports, their capacity, hotels, transport grids and recreational sitesCommercial environment and shopping sitesHuman resourcesCultural diversityCountry’s nature and climateLG’s report stressed that Kuwait lacks most of the above and that Kuwaiti legislations including strict rules for issuing visit and entry visas for foreigners repelled foreign investors. The report also noted that the current airport was always congested during busy seasons with little avenues to expand it while other GCC state airports meet international standards. 
The report also laid emphasis that GCC states were preparing to spend $380 billion on regional touristic projects like building developed touristic centers and facilities capable of attracting tourists till 2018. The report wondered where Kuwait is placed here and whether it will build and develop such touristic projects in the future. 
Kuwaitis spend over $5 billion annually on foreign tourism because of lack of local tourism and recreational projects whichwould meet citizens’ needs for recreation. 
The report added that 60 percent of Kuwaitis expenditure on tourism, around KD 962 million, was spent on recreation (with a 6 percent increase) while 40 percent (KD 616 million) was spent on business tourism (with 7.8 percent increase) in 2012. This means that Kuwaitis spent KD 2.4 billion on flight tickets and hotels alone. The report also quoted the Ministry of Commerce and Industry’s tourism sector remarks, according to international tourism industry indicators, that Kuwaiti tourists spent the highest on touristic journeys which was $1,500 per journey - twice of what European tourists would spend. 
The ministry’s statistics also showed that Kuwait had 6,972 hotel rooms including 3,002 in five-star hotels, 1,376 in four-star hotels, 1,297 in three-star hotels, 226 in two-star hotels, 54 in one-star hotels and 972 unclassified rooms.

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Back After 4months !

It has been 4-long months that I had not logged into my blog.....though every second n minutes I thought about it.

I became irregular after we shifted our residence....took nearly two months for phone and internet  connection.....n then by the time we got it , it was my last stage of my pregnancy.

After birth of my child, I was busy with him and post cesarean problems.

And now i am back....  

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Shifted Residence

It has been long that I have updated o my Blog.....You all must be thinking where did I again disappear?

We changed our residence....we have shifted to a bigger house as our needs were changing.

So did the area changed....so we had to apply for change of telephone line to our new area. And that's the worst part. It takes time.....experience of few indicates that it may take months.

So we are without landline n net for the last few weeks.

Hope we get them soon as lot of works are pending.

Hope to update my blog now n then whenever I get a chance.