"A decade ago, dozens of visitors teemed the streets around places like Bab al-Yemen and Souk al-Milh, watching Yemeni women make jambia belts and other handicrafts. Now, over the past couple of years, the lack of visitors and slow trickle of tourists is having an upsetting impact on Yemenis, and exacerbating the country’s prolonged postponement of development. Those who built their lives around the tourism industry have been in an escalating financial rut as Yemen’s security situation deteriorates and drives foreign tourists and investors away".
