Tourism Industry

An Iranian tourism official says the age of cultural visitors to Iran, who used to be much older than now, has been decreasing recently despite the US’ efforts to spread Iranophobia around the world.

Iran earned $11.8 billion from its tourism sector during the past Iranian calendar year (which started in March 2018), said Ali Asghar Mounesan, head of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization.

A group of Iranian experts have built the country's first undersea restaurant on Kish Island, which is one of the biggest of its kind in the world.

The historical city of Isfahan in central Iran is nowadays hosting scores of foreign tourists who have booked the city's hotels and hostels from a long time ago in order to enjoy its pleasant weather during spring.

Avvenire, an Italian newspaper affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, has run an advertisement of cultural and religious tours of Iran.

A man in Sistan and Baluchestan Province in southeastern Iran has dedicated his life to saving mugger crocodiles.

Visas for visiting Iraq and Iran will be issued free of charge for Iranian and Iraqi pilgrims and tourists as of early April, 2019.

Iran has managed to export $490 million worth of handicrafts during the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year, said Head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHTO).

Some foreign diplomats in Iran have revealed that the US sanctions on Iran cover the country’s tourism industry as well, saying Washington has warned a number of foreign travel agencies and diplomatic missions against cooperating with the Islamic Republic in the tourism area.

At least six million foreign tourists have visited Iran in the first nine months of the current Persian year, said Ali-Asghar Mounesan, the head of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHTO), predicting that the figure would increase to 7 million by the year-end.

Iran and Turkey have signed an agreement to ameliorate mutual relations in the field of tourism as the two sides agree that Tehran-Ankara tourism ties are unstable and imbalanced.

The Iranian capital Tehran is hosting the 12th edition of the International Exhibition of Tourism and Related Industries with hundreds of domestic and foreign companies taking part.

The tourism officials of the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad have adopted a new initiative to attract more foreign tourists.

A French artist, who has traveled to Iran along his wife to hold a photo exhibition says they were fascinated by Iranian culture and hospitality.

The number of tourists traveling to Iran in the first 10 months of the current Iranian year (started March 21) has been increased by 56% year on year, a Cultural Heritage, Handcraft and Tourism Organisation official announced, as a plunge in the national currency’s value has made visiting Iran extremely cheap.

The 39th International Tourism Fair of Spain known as Fitur, has opened in Madrid on Wednesday with Iranian exhibitors taking part to introduce Iranian tourist attractions.

Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organisation is working to establish tourism police in the central city of Yazd with good command of English to protect tourists in the historic neighbourhoods of the city.

The number of American citizens who visited Iran as tourists in the first eight months of the current Persian calendar year has increased significantly compared with the similar period last year, an official says.

A tourism official invited people from across the world to choose Iran as the destination for their Christmas vacation, in a bid to lure tourists who worth a lot to the country’s economy amid the tightening of US sanctions.

The Pahlevan Razzaz guesthouse, a historical building in downtown Tehran, has been turned into a hostel for foreign tourists.

The head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organisation (ICHTO) says Iran seeks to use the activities of youths and their startups in the field of tourism to promote its tourism industry in the country.

Iran says the number of foreign tourists visiting the country has been on the rise recently despite the US sanctions and the Iranophobia project pursued by the country’s enemies.

Traditional meals cooked in Turkmen communities in Iran are among the most interesting tourist attractions of the country.

Tochal, five kilometres away from the Iranian capital of Tehran, is the closest ski resort to an urban area in Iran, and has gained an increasing popularity as it is always accessible to those interested in skiing and mountaineering.

Torbjørn C. Pedersen, a goodwill ambassador for the Danish Red Cross, has for the past five years used public transport to tour the entire world on a shoestring, without taking even a single flight.