The College of Administration and Economics at the University of Basrah discussed a PhD thesis titled (Analysis and measurement of the competitiveness of the tourism sector in selected Arab countries with the possibility of benefiting from it in Iraq).
The thesis of researcher Musab Abdul-Aali Thamer aims to measure and analyze the competitiveness of the tourism sector in Iraq and to clarify the most important weaknesses and strengths in this sector, as well as to build a statistical model for the competitiveness indicators of the tourism sector in a sample of the selected countries in terms of the number of tourists through Panel Data models.
The thesis concluded that Iraq occupied the last rank in the tourism competitiveness indicators that were measured with the sample countries as a result of its poor performance in the main indicators (the enabling environment, policies, enabling conditions, infrastructure, natural and cultural resources).
