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Officials of the General Authority for Craft Industries hosted

The Committee of Culture, Information and Tourism meeting chaired by Hon.Dr. Ahmed bin Ali Al-Meshaqi, Head of the Committee was held in the presence of the honorable members of the Committee and the staff of the Secretariat today. 
 
The committee hosted Sheikh Abdul wahab bin Nasser Al-Manzari, Director General of Planning and Development, Administrative and Financial Affairs and a number of officials of the General Authority for Craft Industries, within the framework of its study on ‘The Traditional Crafts: Reality and Ambition’.
 
The Committee discussed the importance of the handicraft sector, the extent of the development of the sector and its contribution to the development of the national economy and the role of the Authority in developing a national strategy for the advancement of crafts industries to increase their contribution to the national economy.  It also discussed the Authority's efforts in preserving handicraft industries. 
 
During the meeting, the committee reviewed the efforts of the Committee in preserving the handicraft industries and their employees in terms of inventory, training, marketing, sales outlets, and the extent of coordination and cooperation between the Authority and the governmental and private bodies concerned with craft industries. 
 
It delved into the obstacles facing the Authority in preserving handicraft industries and ways to overcome them, and the Committee’s plan to support the handicraft sector to maintain it and to activate the sector better, and support the marketing and promotional aspects of craft products and the extent of cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism in this field.
 
The aim of the study is to review the legislation regulating traditional crafts, to identify the policies and programs implemented by the concerned parties in the handicraft industries, to identify the circumstances surrounding them and the challenges they face, to monitor the contribution of handicraft industries to the gross domestic product and ways to enhance it, Tourism  activities and the role of tourism in support the artisan product, the efficiency and adequacy of marketing outlets, as well as the impact of counterfeit products on handicraft industries and the extent to which families of artisans and their children are interested in pursue the profession. 
 
At the conclusion of the meeting, the Committee reviewed the issues on its agenda and took the appropriate decisions.