Khorasan Razavi Ranks First in Tourism Investment

Khorasan Razavi Province saw the highest amount of investment in tourism and the pilgrimage industry in the country in the last Iranian year (ended March 20), a top official at Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism said. 
According to Hassan Zamani, deputy for investment at the provincial ICHHTO office, out of 1,657 tourism projects at a value of 323 trillion rials ($7.6 billion), 340 at a value of 76.5 trillion rials ($1.8 billion) were carried out in Khorasan Razavi. 
The second spot is held with a significant distance by Mazandaran Province with 174 projects implemented, CHTN reported.