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Police officers patrolling Sadeqieh Subway Station in western Tehran confiscated 30 relics worth an estimated 30 billion rials ($870,000) last week from a man who claimed to have brought them from…

In a move to gradually introduce electronic tickets to replace the traditional paper version for museums, Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization has temporarily stopped…

For some, the best part of traveling is tasting the delicious local cuisine, visiting the shopping malls, mingling with the locals to learn more about the culture, or simply undertaking a forest…

From selfies with tigers to elephant rides and orangutan boxing, Thailand offers tourists an array of attractions that animal rights activists say are cruel and should be shut down.

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Persepolis, arguably the first historical site that comes to mind when Iran is being discussed, might lose its world heritage status if nothing is done about the construction of two giant silos in…

Iranian carrier Mahan Air has expanded its ever-growing flight network by launching direct flights between Tehran and the Danish capital Copenhagen.

The carrier now flies directly to…

The Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration has agreed to reduce tariffs for the import of hotel equipment to support the country’s hotel industry.

Following the theft of five valuable colored tiles from Nasir-ol-Molk Mosque in Shiraz earlier this week, the office of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization in Fars…

The sales of items crafted by Iranian artisans in the 26th Iran Handicrafts Exhibition broke the record set last year.

Official sales statistics were announced by craftsmen to the…

CellPoint Mobile, a payments and mobile commerce solutions provider for the world’s airlines, and Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, now supports Android Pay in the UK.

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Qeshm Air has reportedly announced a new charter service from Tehran to the Croatian capital Zagreb. Quoting an article in The Dubrovnik Times, industry news website Aviationiran.com reported on…

Qeshm Island is a key destination in southern Iran, which draws tourists in droves every year.

The first phase of Bushehr Beach Resort, which was opened in March, is an ideal location for tourist investment, according to a senior provincial tourism official.

Some 230 Syrian and international experts joined forces in a two-day meeting to assess damage to cultural heritage sites in Syria, develop methodologies and define priority emergency safeguarding…

Iranian tourism officials have often stated that they are pinning hopes on tourists from regional countries to revive Iran’s travel industry.

The country’s declared goal is to draw 20…

A group of Iraqi businesses will invest $28 million for the construction of a five-star hotel in Abadan, Khuzestan Province which will begin soon after a plot of land is provided by the Iranian…

Following reports that some hotels have been turning single women away by coming up with excuses to refuse service, the president of the Iranian Hoteliers’ Association has vocally criticized hotel…

The global airline industry association’s head said terrorist attacks on aircraft, airports and tourist destinations of the kind that have ripped through Europe and parts of northern Africa in the…

A vote to leave the European Union this month could cost the UK’s tourism industry as much as £4.1 billion ($5.9 billion) a year in international tourist spending alone.

The project to turn Hendurabi Island in the Persian Gulf into a tourist resort – or the ‘Island of Peace’ as the advocates of the scheme call it – has been suspended due to a number of…

Drawing on the potential for marine tourism along the Makran Coast in southern Iran is essential to developing the local economy, according to a senior tourism official in Sistan-Baluchestan…

A member of the Tourism Commission at the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture has once again called for a revision of public holidays and extending the Iranian weekend.…

The bottlenose dolphins of Hengam Island that used to race tourist boats, creating one of the most enjoyable and popular attractions of the Persian Gulf island are now avoiding tourists.

As Paris tourism struggles to overcome last November’s Islamist attacks, the world’s most visited city faces a new threat: a wave of protests and further planned strikes, tourism officials warned…

Hassan Rouhani, who had pledged to normalize ties with the international community and end the crippling economic sanctions during his presidential campaign, was elected in 2013 to deliver.