Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply Dr. Tarik Al-Hammouri stressed the government's keenness to activate the principle of effective dialogue with representatives of all economic activities in order to improve the business environment and enable economic enterprises to push the productive process through taking advantage of available opportunities and addressing challenges that weaken their competitiveness. 

The meeting was attended by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply Yousef Al-Shamali, the First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Jordan Chamber of Commerce, the Representative of the Services and Consultancy Sector Jamal Al Rifai and the members of the Tourism Committee in the Chamber. 

The meeting is a continuation of a series of consultative meetings held by the Ministry in coordination with the Jordan Chamber of Commerce in the presence of representatives of all commercial sectors and in the presence of representatives of a large group of companies working in each commercial sector separately to identify the most important obstacles and challenges facing the workers in these sectors for the purpose of discussing Mechanisms to address. These meetings concluded with a matrix of challenges and obstacles facing the Jordanian commercial sector. 

The Minister stressed the importance of the services and consultancy sector in driving the medium and long term economic growth through attracting foreign investments and employing Jordanian labour through its sub-sectors related to transport and storage, telecommunications, financial services, insurance and real estate. 

The First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Jordan Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Jamal Rifai, praised the participatory approach adopted by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply. He pointed out that work is under way to develop a set of proposals to overcome the challenges facing tourism agents, tourist restaurant owners, important installations in the sector. 

The service sector consists of several main sectors which fall within the framework of the services and consulting sector, etc. The current production amounted to about 5 billion dinars, and the total value added of the existing production is 64 percent, or 3.1 billion dinars, explains the importance of the service sector to the national economy. 

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