On Thursday 7 November 2024, the General Directorate of Syriac Culture and Arts in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region organised a lecture on conference tourism at the Syriac Heritage Museum’s hall in Ankawa District Centre, in cooperation with the Iraqi Culture, Tourism and Antiquities Ministry’s Conference Palace Department.
The lecture was given by the Director General of the Iraqi Culture, Tourism and Antiquities Ministry’s Conference Palace Department, Dr. Muntaser Sabah al-Hasnawi, who addressed the topic of conferences and how to make them a tributary of tourism in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, through the personalities participating in them from neighboring countries and the region.
The lecture was attended by the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, and a number of the Directorate’s employees, in addition to a number of those interested in cultural and tourism affairs.
Dr. Montaser Sabah al-Hasnawi, who holds a master’s and doctorate in geography from the University of Kufa’s College of Arts, worked in the academic field for 16 years, before moving to administrative work as Director of the Culture, Tourism and Antiquities Minister’s Office in 2020. He is currently the Director General of the Conference Palace Department at the Ministry.
Dr. al-Hasnawi has dozens of scientific research papers and five published books, which vary between his field of specialisation and interest in the environmental and archaeological field. He has an interest in managing and organising conferences, as he has chaired dozens of international and local conferences at the official and civil society levels.
It is worth noting that conference tourism is considered one of the types of cultural tourism that is characterised by modernity, due to its emergence at the end of the twentieth century, through organising and preparing conferences at the global level, and it aims to encourage knowledge and expand the circle of cultural and civilisational information.
