The "Tourism" Supplement of Bahrain won the Oscar for tourism media for the best tourism magazine for the year 2016, according to the Arab Center for Tourism Information, which organizes the annual competition in its ninth edition. Hanan Rajab won the award for the category of the best writer in the field of writing Arabic tourism for the year 2016.
The Arab Center for Tourism media published the names of the winners in a press release recently, between the harvests of the Kingdom of Bahrain for two different award categories.
The Executive Director of "Daily Public Relations" Mahmoud Al-Nasheet expressed his delight in this remarkable achievement in the fields of media and tourism in Bahrain. He said he hoped Bahrain would be a precedent in the specialized press.
"I have long wished to have a specialized media platform for local tourism, and after long thought and study, I launched the" Tourism "publication despite the fact that this is an era of electronic publishing, but the choice was for the printed publishing due to my believe in its abilities and advantages ". Al Nasheet stated.
He continued "With the establishment of the platform, the editorial team was working hard to define its mission through the participation of the advertising groups that provide services benefiting the resident and visitor, and meet the need of the tourist abroad, and decided to be " tourism "a Bahraini publication to introduce the Arab reader to tourism in the Kingdom of Bahrain and tourist attractions In addition to its definition of tourist activities and destinations in the Gulf countries." Tourism "also introduces multiple destinations within the Arab world and abroad and gives multiple options of wonderful holidays for the Arab tourists.”
He expressed his ambition to reach the second phase of the "tourism" march to make tourism in the entire Arab world within the range of our articles and cameras at a faster pace.
He stressed that "Tourism", one of the productions of "Daily Public Relations", and issued to contribute to the Arab tourism media in an attempt to fill the gap in this area.
On the other side Rajab expressed her delight for winning for her article titled "Shuiter Museum tell the Story of Diving and halwa" published in the "Tourism" by the "Daily Public Relations" last August.
Rajab revealed her attachment to the report, which brought together the heritage of a pearl past and an ongoing presence in the halwa industry. "I was struck by the size of the holdings in the museum of the family of the late Hussein Shweiter, which included household tools, sea tools and other diving equipment. And the most important thing that stopped me was that the family kept the first pot they used to cock the Bahraini dessert “Halwa” that the family was famous for. "