Hotels, Restaurants Register Highest Inflation With 61%

The average goods and services Consumer Price Index of “hotels and restaurants” in the 12-month period ending Feb. 19 increased by 61.2% compared with the corresponding period of the year before, the highest among 12 groups of goods and services surveyed by the Statistical center of Iran.
The CPI of the group stood at 442.4 in the month ending Feb. 19, indicating a 2.9% rise compared with the month before. 
The index, with a coefficient of 1.44%, registered a year-on-year increase of 59.7%.