Tourism Industry

French group AccorHotels will open an Ibis hotel and a Novotel branch near Tehran's international airport.

French group AccorHotels says it plans to open an Ibis hotel and a Novotel branch near Tehran's international airport – what could make it the first international hotel group to operate in Iran in light of the July nuclear breakthrough between Iran and the P5+1 and the prospects for the removal of anti-Iran sanctions.

In the new directive tourism facilities are defined and regulations governing the establishment, operations, rating and supervision of these facilities are specified, Soltanifar said.

An Iranian official has said Iran needs to tap into the potential of international companies and use joint ventures in the post-sanctions era if it really seeks to revive its tourism sector.

Images of Parau Cave, Iran's deepest and most dangerous cave in Kermanshah province, west of country.

During the year-long period Iran's tourism balance landed in positive territory for the first time in more than 35 years.

How a chance encounter has helped a villager in southern Iran set up a very lucrative business with a still brighter future ahead.

Photos of the eighth Tehran International Tourism Exhibition in the Iranian capital.

I decided to visit Iran again and be the only female US photojournalist who adds photos of today’s Iran to her old collection of snapshots, said Goodman.

The head of the Iranian tourism agency says arrangements are being made for the settlement of thousands of foreign tourists in the so-called black tents in nomadic areas across the country.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has voted for executive instructions aimed at beefing up security for foreign tourists.

An Iranian official expresses pleasure that more foreign tourists have been showing interest in traveling to Iran in recent months.

Head of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) Massoud Soltanifar vowed to do his organization's best to pave the ground for attracting more tourists to the country's holy shrines.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani welcomed the outstanding increase in the foreign tourists' visits to the country, and said many Iranian hotels have been reserved by them to the end of 2014.