Van-Ardebil Tourist Ties Highlighted

Deputy Governor of the Turkish border city of Van, Ishak Cinar, expressed pleasure at the level of tourism relations with the Iranian Province of Ardebil.
"Van hosted over 500,000 Iranian tourists last year, mostly from the cities across the Iranian border, and we made every effort to ensure they were well-served," ISNA quoted Cinar as saying on Monday.
He was speaking on the sidelines of a tourism conference in Ardebil, the capital of a northwestern Iranian province of the same name.