Muscat: Oman plans to launch mobile restaurants at tourist spots for the first time as part of developing the tourism sector.
Oman’s Tourism Minister Ahmad Al Mehrazi told Wijhattt, a local tourism and travel newspaper, that introducing mobile restaurants aims to provide services for tourists who visit tourist hotspots in the country.
“It will also benefit the owners of those mobile restaurants,” Al Mehrzi added.
He explained that the Ministry of Tourism has begun to develop plans to start operating the mobile restaurants in main tourist destinations.
It will also provide hundreds of job opportunities for Omanis.
The ministry is working to put regulations and conditions as well as the quality of the buses that will be used in coordination with the Ministry of Regional Municipalities and Water Resources.
Mobile restaurants will be required to have mobile toilets.
Observers believe that launching mobile restaurants will develop the tourism sector in the country as many tourist areas lack to the restaurants as well as public toilets.
Omanis recently launched a hashtag called ‘#internal tourism in Oman’ demanding of better tourist services particularly the toilets issue in tourist spots.
Oman attracted roughly 2.5 million visitors in 2014, according to Ministry of Tourism figures. It wants to attract 12 million tourists annually by 2020.
Tourism currently accounts for only 3 per cent of Oman’s gross domestic product.
