Yemen is located on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia Bordered on the north by Saudi Arabia, on the south by the Arab Sea and the Gulf of Aden On the east by the Sultanate of Oman and on the west by the Red Sea

Tourism in Yemen is a promising sector, since Yemen is the cradle of civilizations and Yemen possesses a variety of varied tourist natural factors of history, ruins, the cultural heritage, and natural fundamentals that make it a tourist landmark.

Tourism in Yemen is a promising sector, since Yemen is the cradle of civilizations and Yemen possesses a variety of varied tourist natural factors of history, ruins, the cultural heritage, and natural fundamentals that make it a tourist landmark This is evidenced by the diversity of architecture, which makes it provide wonderful architectural models unparalleled in the world The data available on the tourism sector indicate the existence of expansion in tourist facilities: Number of hotels 1166 (2006)Hotel Average tourist nights are 6 nights Average tourist expenditure per night is 135 dollars

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES

Walled City of Shibam Province
Hadramout Surrounded by a fortified wall, the 16th-century city of Shibam is one of the oldest and best examples of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction.

City of Sana'a
Capital of the Republic of Yemen
Situated in a mountain valley at an altitude of 2,200 m, Sana’a has been inhabited for more than 2,500 years. In the 7th and 8th centuries the city became a major centre for the propagation of Islam. This religious and political heritage can be seen in the 103 mosques, 14 hammams and over 6,000 houses, all built before the 11th century. Sana’a’s many-storeyed tower-houses built of rammed earth (pisé) add to the beauty of the site.

Historic Town of Zabid
Province: al-Hudayda Zabid's domestic and military architecture and its urban plan make it an outstanding archaeological and historical site. Besides being the capital of Yemen from the 13th to the 15th century, the city played an important role in the Arab and Muslim world for many centuries because of its Islamic university.

Al-Hajjarah
Southwest of Sana’a is Al Hajjarah, one of the most impressive and easily accessible mountain villages in Yemen Al Hajjarah encircles and crowns the summit of a hill. Built of quarried stone from the mountainside nearby, it looks like a natural outgrowth of the local bedrock. It is a superb example of Yemeni vernacular architecture.

Terrain
Yemen is characterized by the diversity of aspects of the surface and therefore has been divided into five major geographic regions:

* The coastal plain region
* The Mountain Highlands Region
* The Mountainous Basins Region
* The Plateau Areas Region
* Desert Region

Climate & Temperature

Rain falls in two seasons.
Spring season (March- April)
Summer (July- August)
The amount of rainfall ranges between 600-1500m annually.
Eastern and southern plains have high temperature degrees to 42°m and goes down to 25°m
In winter the lesser temperature on the highlands reaches closer to Zero degree
As for humidity, it is high on the coastal plains up to more than 80% whereas it goes down toward the internal parts where it reaches its minimum rate in the desert areas around 15%.

Transportation

The primary transport sector in Yemen is road transport
The primary road network in Yemen is currently about 9400 km, including about 7200 km of asphalt roads and 2000 km of gravel roads
Of the asphalt paved roads, about 5300 km are rural inter- district roads and some 1900 km are urban roads
In addition, there are about 57,000 km of track roads
Both passenger and freight transportation are primarily dependent on road transport
A large percentage of the road traffic consists of trucks

However, it is the tourist that ought to be regarded the one in the most need for the weather forecasts and other information on the atmosphere. This is because he is more liable to the effects than any one else for the variations of the climate. It is not those citizens of the country residing in their homes, but the tourist who needs to utilize his time in getting familiar with the historical heritage of that country he came personally to visit.

One should not forget that it is also the tourist who should be physically, mentally and biologically adopted by a particular status to which he became adapted since birth. It could be so different from the location, or country, or places he intended to visit. The variations in the weather have thus to be taken fully in account and other considerations. If not, that visitor may be liable for deterioration of his health, or even be in a condition worse than had pre-expected.

Nowadays, many tourism companies and agencies do care about the conditions of weather and climate. They usually attach some of their booklets, brochures and other advertising material bulletins of the weather and climate conditions existing in their specific country, natural spots, sites, etc etc. The purpose is to provide the tourists wishing to pay visits a general indicator for determining the weight of the personal luggage he/ she is going to choose and carry along his/her trips. In fact, among the matters to be determined by any visitor, or tourist, are mainly the followings:-

Among them, it is quite common to find many are affected by atmospheric diseases and infections. In fact for any old-age traveler any reduction of fresh-oxygen supply, or sudden decrease/ increase of heat temperatures, or effect of hot sun-rays, may lead to sudden stoppage of heart-beating, and consequently of his/ her death.

Our country-Republic of Yemen-as blessed by God its variable climate is really considered one of the beautiful locations where not only tourism could prosper, but the national earning from this industry should to become great and sustainable if only certain economic and social resources, capacities and factors were to be made available.

Yemen has extensive lengths of beaches and coasts reaching up to 2000 kilometers, as well as, mountains peaks reaching the highest of 3660 meters above sea-level e.g. Prophet Shuaib's Mountain. Besides, there are the green-planted terraces coming down many of these mountains. All these should be enough to induce the official bodies to construct tourist resorts sustainable throughout the year, together with, few internationally-tourist centers for attracting the tourist groups on a continual basis.

In short, our beautiful country needs a lot of attention in covering about its mountains, valleys, plateaus, lowlands and beaches with a comprehensive network of weather forecasting stations. These should remain the basis for supplying the data, information and statistics for both the foreign investors and visitors arriving and departing Yemen.