(AGI) Addis Abeba - Marketing focused on tourism trigerred by Ethiopia,at a worldwide level last year, is now bearing its fruits.

It was organized on the occasion of major fairs and, in the province of Dire Dawa, one of the independent cities in the Western region, tourism proceeds in the first quarter have been of 3.8 million Euros, which is more than twice of what was made in the same quarter of 2010.

Visitors have amounted to 16,000 this year, against 9,000 in 2010. Dire Dawa is an interesting tourist location with rare rural painting sites, churches and mosques. . .