21.   While many of the listed events have a Christian flavor, the tourism ministry has forgone listing Christian rituals.

22.   Israel will be officially represented for the first time at an international tourism fair in Morocco from Thursday, the tourism ministry announced.

23.   A bus provided by the Israeli tourism ministry which was carrying Baram along with Israeli tour operators, hoteliers and businessmen later returned to Jerusalem.

24.   Abu Ayyash, assistant secretary-general of the Jordanian tourism ministry, said he was interested in the project.

25.   But Beltagui said no organisation except the tourism ministry could decide on a tourist issue.

26.   The parliament also created a tourism ministry, a portfolio which previously came under the commerce ministry.

27.   The tourism ministry also announced that work was underway to repair and expand a tourist road linking Aswan and Abu Simbel in southernmost Egypt.

28.   The two officials made the pledge before the strikers who held a protest in front of the tourism ministry building in Aden.

29.   The tourism ministry also launched a publicity drive in the Gulf, the first of its kind in the region, managed by a Saudi advertising agency.

30.   The tourism ministry said that interest also was on the rise among German, French and Mexican tourists.