(4 Apr 2022) IRAQ MOSUL TOURISM
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mosul - 29 March 2022
1. Various of foreign tourists and local guides at historic site
2. Tourist taking photos of the place
3. View of Tigris River from an old castle
4. Group walking next to ruins
5. Various of tourists taking photos of area
6. Tourists and local guides walking next to destroyed buildings
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yvette Carnell, tourist from Portugal:
"I was sure I would find a very pure country, not ruined by mass tourism. And because I always wanted to see what had happened here and to understand better what had happened here, to see all Iraq of course and to come to Mosul and to the destroyed places to see how people are dealing with it. How they are getting back to life."
8. Tourist taking photos of the area
9. Various of tourists and guide in Mosul's Old City
10. Various of tourists and guides inside damaged buildings
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Rui Barbosa Batista, tourist from Portugal:
"The idea that comes to Portugal is just about wars, not good things. Coming here, the idea is to help to deconstruct this kind of idea. So it's to show people is that it's safe to travel, people are nice, the Middle East is not a bunch of terrorists, you know it is kind of normal people like everywhere in the world, with the same dreams and with the same desires."
12. Various of tourists and guides inside historic house
13. Various of tourist taking photos and touring site
14. Tourists sitting with guides
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ayoub Dhanoun, head of Mosul Heritage initiative:
"What we're mostly working on now is marketing tourism in the city to attract many tourists, whether from inside Iraq or foreign tourists from abroad. We started working for free to promote the city to show that the city is safe and able to receive tourists."
16. Various of tourists visiting al-Nouri Mosque site
17. Group looking at original stones and bricks from destroyed site
18. Group walking by mosque's destroyed leaning minaret known as al-Hadba
LEADIN:
Young volunteers from the Iraqi city of Mosul are offering foreign visitors free guided tours to promote tourism in the city.
STORYLINE:
A group of young people in Iraq's Mosul have been organizing free guided tours for foreigners in the hopes of luring more tourists to the war-bruised city.
Named Mosul Heritage, the group is mostly made up of university graduates who speak English as a second language.
In addition to the free tours, the group also offers transportation services and meals in local restaurants at cheap prices.
The meal and transport services cost $20 per person for half a day and $40 for a full day.
In one of the tours last week, a group of Portuguese tourists got to discover heritage sites across the city.
They also visited areas that were destroyed or damaged in the war against the Islamic State group.
Last year, Iraq removed the pre-arrival visa requirement for citizens from 37 countries, including the U.S., U.K. and EU countries, in order to boost business and promote tourism.
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