The highly anticipated museum in Pasargadae, a world heritage site in Fars Province, will open at most in three years, a senior official at Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism…
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The chief of the United Nations World Tourism Organization has urged governments to be more circumspect before issuing travel advisories, as this could aggravate the fight against terrorism.
Tourism across the globe showed healthy growth through the first quarter.
The United Nations World Tourism Organization released its 2017 World Tourism Barometer on Saturday, which…
Officials in the city of Yazd are considering measures to help improve the ancient city's international image.
A section of Yazd's historical texture was inscribed on the UNESCO World…
There are places where the surge of global tourism is starting to feel like a tidal wave.
Ancient cities around the shores of the Mediterranean and Adriatic are on the frontline, their…
The US Justice Department has asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to put on hold a judge’s ruling modifying the Trump administration’s travel ban on immigrants from six majority-Muslim…
A further 10 hotels in Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi Province, have been put up for sale, increasing the number to 80.
Less than a week ago, Mohammad Qanei, the head of the provincial office of…
A budget of 2.3 billion rials ($62,000) has been allocated to restore cultural and historical heritage sites in Mahabad, West Azarbaijan Province, the provincial office of Iran's Cultural Heritage…
A workgroup comprising officials from Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization and members of Iranian Hoteliers Association will be formed to assess hotel services and set…
A senior tourism official in East Azarbaijan Province has called for tempering expectations over Tabriz's selection as the capital of Islamic tourism in 2018.
Morteza Abdar Bakhshayesh,…
About 105,000 tourists traveled to Iran in the last Iranian year (ended March 20) to receive medical care, the secretary of Health Tourism Strategic Council said.
Speaking to ISNA, Mohammad…
Iran's tourism authority has given industry players until the weekend to come up with a plan to target the growing East Asian travel markets.
After a record 2016, the number of people visiting the UK from abroad continued to rise at a ferocious pace during the first four months of 2017.
Around 8.3 million visits to the UK were…
The clock has started to tick on a 50-day deadline for foreign governments to meet new US standards for passports and sharing information about their citizens.
Failing to meet the deadline…
Armenian investors are keen on buildings hotels in Iran, the president of Yerevan Chamber of Commerce and Industries said.
A total of 59 relics were seized last week in Varamin, Tehran Province, during a police raid, a local cultural heritage official said.
"The artifacts date back to the 3rd millennium BC,"…
Private investors have pledged 1.1 trillion rials ($29 million) for cultural heritage projects in Isfahan Province to help launch 90 schemes since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March…
With the number of tourists declining in Mashhad, hoteliers in the holy city have decided to sell 70 properties, the head of Khorasan Razavi Hotels Association said.
Work on Sarzamin-e-Iranian (meaning Land of Iranians), a massive tourist resort 35 kilometers southwest of Tehran, is progressing well and will partially open by the end of the current Iranian…
All Iranian airlines that had cancelled their Najaf route have been given the green light to resume flights by the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran.
Speaking to reporters in Yazd on…
Qeshm Airlines will launch the Tabriz-Hamburg route on July 14, as part of Iran's plans to improve the northwestern Iranian city's global profile ahead of its hosting of tourism ministers from…
Businesses in Asia have often justified the so-called elephant tourism by arguing that the industry benefits elephants and helps safeguard this endangered animal. But new research shows that…
The administration of US President Donald Trump said it plans to rescind an Obama-era program that would allow foreign entrepreneurs who launch startup companies in the US to live in the country,…
The historical city of Yazd in central Iran has become the country's 22nd world heritage site after the World Heritage Committee voted in favor of its inscription on Sunday during the committee's…
Iran Aseman Airlines will launch biweekly flights from Rasht, Gilan Province to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on July 3, according to a statement on the official website of Rasht’s
