Razavi Khorasan's Hotel Guest Numbers Double

The number of foreign tourists who stayed in hotels across the northeastern province of Razavi Khorasan nearly doubled in the ten days ending August 1, compared with same period last year.
"Over the first ten days of the current Iranian month, the province's hotels provided accommodation to 60,000 international visitors, registering a 93% increase from the corresponding period last year, when the figure stood at 31,000," Yousef Bidkhori, a deputy head of the provincial office of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, told IRNA on Monday.