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30% of Hotel Close Due to Covid-19

30% of Hotel Close Due to Covid-19
30% of Hotel Close Due to Covid-19

Some 30% of Iranian hotels have closed down since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and the ones remaining open are offering special discounts of up to 70% on their services, according to the head of Iran’s Hotel Owners Society.
“The industry has suffered a total of 85 trillion rials [$304 million] in losses due to the pandemic and the drastic decline in domestic and international tourism,” Jamshid Hamzehzadeh was quoted as saying by the news portal of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture.
The official said around two-thirds of jobs have been lost in the country’s hotel industry since the Covid-19 outbreak.
Prior to the outbreak, 240,000 people were directly and 550,000 were indirectly employed in the Iranian tourism industry.
“The outbreak of coronavirus has so far caused losses worth 120 trillion rials [$430 million] to Iran’s tourism industry,” Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Ali Asghar Mounesan said in September.
“Only 1.75 trillion rials [$6.2 million] of the sum have been compensated in the form of loans to economic players of tourism industry. Insurance premium and loan repayment breaks were among emergency measures offered to reduce the economic impact of Covid-19 recession on tourism.” According to the minister, only 74 foreign tourists visited Iran during the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 20-June 20) compared with 2.3 million in the same period of last year. 
“A total of 8.7 million foreigners travelled to Iran in the last Iranian year [March 2019-20],” he said. 

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