China’s business travel market has overtaken the United States to become the largest in the world, the Global Business Travel Association has revealed.
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People across continents celebrated the 46th annual Earth Day on April 22, demonstrating their support for environmental conservation once again and calling on world leaders to spare no effort to…
Eram and Nakhl-e-Hengam hotels were inaugurated on Qeshm Island by Masoud Soltanifar, the head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, in a ceremony held on Thursday.
The Fund for Restoration and Administration of Historical and Cultural Places has set itself the goal of restoring between 25 and 30 historical buildings by the end of the current Iranian year…
The Faculty of Linguistics at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies is compiling an atlas of ancient Persian inscriptions in a bilingual website, according to director of the project,…
The Omid Entrepreneurship Fund, whose main purpose is to provide support for the creation of new jobs, is offering Qarz-al-Hasana (interest-free) loans for innovative and practical ideas in the…
The hotel industry in Mashhad has expanded in big numbers over the past three years, according to the president of Khorasan Razavi Hotels Association, Muhammad Qanei.
Three years ago,…
Rife with political instability and security concerns, the Middle East may not be a top holiday destination for most travelers. Add to that the western media’s affinity for exaggeration and the…
An estimated 675 handicraft markets in Iran’s 31 provinces earned close to 320 billion rials ($9.3 million) during the Norouz New Year holidays (March 20-April 1), according to the Handicrafts…
The United Nations has declared 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, in the hope of using the growing industry to help the global community meet the UN’s…
Flash floods on Wednesday and Thursday that wreaked havoc across 126 cities in western and southwestern Iran have damaged historical sites and infrastructure in Ilam and Khuzestan provinces.
A young Iraqi student living in the US who was thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight wants the airline to apologize for singling him out.
Tourism bookings in the first quarter of the year have turned negative compared to last year, according to March data by Amadeus cited by the president of the Association of Hellenic Tourism…
Restarting direct flights between Tabriz in East Azarbaijan Province and Baku, capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan is a possibility in the near future, according to a senior tourism official.
An exhibition of tourism and associated industries will be held in Kerman Province, May 9-13, according to the head of the provincial office of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism…
The 12th China Outbound Travel and Tourism Market exhibition, which had started April 12 in Beijing, ended on Thursday with Iran being one of main talking points among the visitors and…
Iran’s world heritage sites generated around 59 billion rials ($1.7 million) during the two-week New Year holiday. Nearly 1.9 million domestic tourists and 26,419 foreigners visited the country’s…
Tourism officials in Tehran have criticized the mistreatment of some Iranian tourists by Turkish law enforcement and asked Ankara to “change its attitude toward Iranian nationals.”
Space tourism may be closer than you think. Nevada-based startup Bigelow Aerospace is teaming up with United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing, to…
Canada’s law legalizing physician-assisted suicide — which allows doctors to help terminally ill patients end their own lives — will only apply to people who live in Canada, according to the…
Generating jobs and helping cut he dole queues are among government’s top priorities in the new fiscal year (started 20 March), with special emphasis on the nascent tourism sector, where the…
Iran and Cyprus aim to expand tourism ties, with the government in Nicosia eyeing investment opportunities in Iran.
A new Moscow-Tehran route organized by the UK-based Golden Eagle Luxury Trains will be available on November 10.
The privately-owned company is due to open its new route from Moscow to…
Tourism to France rose in 2015 despite the Paris terror attacks, with the country attracting more than 80 million tourists in 2015.
Government figures show that 84.5 million tourists…
An art and culture exhibition of the Maya civilization will be held in Tehran later this year, according to Muhammad Reza Kargar, director of museum affairs at Iran’s Cultural Heritage,…
