By Hend GadAllah

The Ministry of Youth and Sports organizes the first virtual forum for marketing sports camps entitled (Sports Connectivity Forum 2020) on Tuesday, September 29 at 6:00 PM Cairo time under the patronage of Dr. Ashraf Sobhy, Minister of Youth and Sports with the participation of Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi Minister of Youth And sports, Mr. Issa Hilal Al Hazmi, Chairman of the Sharjah Sports Council in the United Arab Emirates, and Mr. Adnan Darjal, the Iraqi Minister of Youth and Sports, was invited to participate in the forum.

This forum aims to identify the sports facilities and capabilities of each country to host sports camps as well as the privileges that each country can offer to attract teams from other countries, which helps the exchange of sports camps between those countries. The forum will also provide an opportunity to speak with senior officials in Egyptian sports. Some officials’ clubs and federations in each of the three countries participating in the forum will participate in addition to companies and institutions specialized in organizing sports camps as well as hosting facilities such as hotels, villages, and resorts that contain sports facilities or close to sports facilities owned by the ministries of youth and sports.

It is worth noting that the financial allocations for the sports camp facility from the ministries of youth and sports are very formidable unfortunately are spent in the cities of Turkey specialized in hosting these types of sports camps for Arab countries. This made the Arab Federation for Sports Marketing and Investment presenting a vision to His Excellency the Egyptian Minister of Youth and Sports Dr. Ashraf Sobhy to organize this huge forum to provide the sports dollar, and bring the sports dollar through the infrastructure of the sports facilities found in these Arab countries participating in the forum. 

Several international personalities specialized in the field of tourism, marketing, and sports investment, as well as Arab federations specialized in the field of tourism, Arab guides, officials of the Council of Arab Economic Unity, the president, deputy and members of the Arab Federation for Marketing and Sports Investment and Egyptian tourism leaders will participate.