Travel

Over 1,800 tourism projects are currently underway across the country with an investment worth 430 trillion rials ($4.5 billion), heralding bright prospects for the industry, said the head of…

President Hassan Rouhani has ordered prompt action to address the issue of exorbitant air ticket prices, the head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization said. 

Tourists have returned in droves to Turkey, helped this summer by the sharp fall in the value of the Turkish lira following economic uncertainty and a rift with the United States.

Top officials of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization met with board members of the Iranian Hoteliers' Association to discuss the growing problems facing the industry…

Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization is gradually expanding the tourism services it is offering via a newly developed mobile government application.

The historical house of Vakil-o-Tojjar, which was earlier used for commercial purposes, has been reopened as a historical cafe-restaurant in Mohammadieh Square in Tehran.

The historical Hamedan Province has hosted a substantial number of visitors during the first four months of the current Iranian year which began on March 21, a senior official at Iran's Cultural…

Maldives Ministry of Tourism statistics have revealed an 8.1% increase in tourist arrivals for the month of July 2018. Maldives also recorded a 10.1% increase in tourist arrivals from January to…

With hotels facing mass cancellations, Iraqis in the holy city of Najaf are being hit hard by US sanctions on neighboring Iran, which have forced cash-strapped pilgrims to stay home.

Two weeks remain to the first marathon race in the winding paths of the iconic Abr (Cloud) Forest in Semnan with the primary goal of highlighting the tourist attractions of a province that seeks…

The Education Ministry has given the initial green light to the insertion of winter holidays into the school calendar but its implementation in the upcoming academic year is still uncertain, the…

Qualified cities will be officially designated "Tourist City" by Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization in an upcoming exhibition on tourism economy.

The prospect of 40 million foreign tourists coming to Thailand next year is too big a draw to ignore for boutique US hotel company Standard International.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently visited major tourist facilities and positively encouraged officials, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Friday.

A Chinese travel website backed by Singaporean state investor Temasek Holdings hopes to raise up to $300 million in a new funding round that it hopes to value the firm at $2 billion to $2.5…

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…

A second train tour to Shahrud, Semnan Province, has been organized in which carriages will snake through the Abr Forest and other natural wonders of the city. "It takes the passengers on a 429-…

The global inscription of Chogan, an Iranian team sport internationally known as polo, on UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity was celebrated on Monday at Qasr-e Firuzeh…

Visitors to Turkey flocked to its high-end shops to snap up bargains on Monday, their purchasing power buoyed by a currency crisis as the country's lira sank to a record low beyond 7 per dollar…

Malaysia's new government will change an official tourism logo featuring an orangutan wearing sunglasses after it sparked a storm of mockery, a minister said on Tuesday.

The "Visit…

The sharp depreciation of the rial which should normally boost the inbound tourism market by making trips more affordable for foreigners has failed to bring the country the anticipated profit…

The number of tourists visiting Cuba is on the rise despite US "campaigns" to curb economic activity on the communist island, Cuban officials announced on Friday. Some three million tourists…

The average room rates of Dubai hotels dropped due to an increase in supply, hitting a 14-year low during the month of July.

According to statistics provided by STR, a leading hotel data…

A memorandum of understanding was signed between Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, the Plan and Budget Organization and the National Development Fund of Iran on…

Ali Asghar Mounesan, head of Iran's cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, which is set be converted to a ministry, believes the new structure should involve separate divisions…