The council, which kicked off its 10th session Thursday, lauded the Lebanese Tourism Misemnistry's vision to boost the sector's activities by holding a media forum that included inars on culture and tourism in Lebanon. The forum will be held on June 22, 2007.

The meeting underlined the need to promote inter-Arab tourism and achieve tourism integration as a step toward full economic integration between Arab states.

The ministers also called for the promotion of joint tourism activities, such as Arab festivals, and recommended the unification of hotel charges and transport facilities.

In that regard, a work team grouping Kuwait, Egypt, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan and Palestine will present a development program for pan-Arab tourism products.

It also approved the restructuring of the tourism technical committee into an executive office that included Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Bahrain and the Emirates in its membership.

Kuwaiti Minister of Commerce and Industry Falah Al-Hajri headed his country's delegation to the meeting, and Kuwait had presented a paper on how to stimulate and spur pan-Arab tourism.