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  • A new passenger port has been inaugurated, in the southern province of Sistan and Baluchestan to facilitate travel by sea between Chabahar and Konarak for tourists especially during holidays, IRNA…

  • Three years ago, I took part in a tour of the Grand Bazaar in old town Istanbul. Among various spices, embroideries, artifacts, and foods, silk was in short supply. That surprised me; it was as…

  • An old water system has been discovered under the library of Negarestan museum complex, near Baharestan square in Tehran, Mehr News reported.

    Negarestan library has been under restoration…

  • A Brazilian city called Igarata has started to re-emerge from the Jaguari River due to a prolonged drought that has struck the South American state.

    A buried Brazil city has miraculously re…

  • China is planning an international tourism zone in its northeastern border area with Russia and North Korea, state news agency Xinhua said on Friday, in Pyongyang’s latest push…

  • By examining the remains of textiles from different historical periods in Iran, the research center for Iranian traditional arts has succeeded in recreating textiles from the Sassanid and Buyid…

  • The number of domestic flights to Kish Island has increased by 25%, Online Hamshahri quoted managing director of Kish Free Zone Ali-Asghar Moonesan as saying. Over 100 flights per day are made to…

  • Iran is ready to introduce a visa-free regime for Kazakhstan to build bilateral cooperation in various fields. This statement was made by Mojtaba Damirchilu, Iran’s Ambassador to Kazakhstan. “At…

  • Iranian Calligraphers Association has many administrative offices in Tehran, but its branch in northern Tehran could be considered a little too trendy for an administrative center. The setting of…

  • The capacity of the country’s railway fleet has increased for the Nowruz holiday season, starting on March 20, and ending on April 2, Persian daily Ta’adol quoted a deputy of the Islamic Republic…

  • A protocol of rules and regulations has been drawn up on development and running of eco-lodges on the approval of the head of ICHHTO (Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization…

  • Iran and Turkey will soon implement a bilateral tourism agreement, Mehr News reported. The agreement is to be implemented as it was approved by the Turkish cabinet.

    Based on a bill passed…

  • The 8th Tehran International Tourism Exhibition officially ended on Sunday February 15, after a four successful days of conferences and exhibitions.

  • Like other residents of this tiny Taiwanese archipelago, a 30-minute ferry ride from neighboring China, shopkeeper Chang Hung is trying to make the switch from fighting the mainland to wooing it…

  • The 8th convention of Iranian Tourist Guides commenced on February 17 in Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi Province and will run until Feb 20.  

  • There are no restrictions on Iranian tourists visiting Egypt.  Iranians can travel to Egypt in accordance to the rules of travel signed between the countries, via their respective tour…

  • An ancient graveyard was discovered in the suburb of Bojnurd, capital of North Khorasan Province, CHTN quoted public relation office of the provincial ICHHTO (Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts…

  • Iran, Egypt, and the Persian Gulf states are the main target markets for South Korean tourism in 2015, said Shafiq Ibrahim, marketing manager of the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) at its Dubai…

  • At a meeting, the Spanish ambassador to Tehran, Pedro Villena, and head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO), Masoud Soltanifar, supported expanding of ties…

  • Kish Island witnessed an unprecedented number of tourists with 73,000 visiting the Persian Gulf Island last week.

  • The age old, eye catching bridges of Iran that have carried the stories of hundreds of thousands of trampling feet throughout history, should not be left out when talking about Iran’s tourist…

  • Taleb D. Rifai, ecretary general of United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), on the last day of his visit to Iran presented a letter addressed to President Hassan Rouhani, written…

  • They say that five sieverts of radiation is enough to kill you, so I was curious to see the reading on my Russian-made dosimeter as our tour van passed into the exclusion zone—the vast,…

  • A national program is to be implemented to help enhance the tourism industry, IRNA quoted tourism deputy of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) Morteza Rahmani-…

  • The pattern of declining oil prices in the global market, and its far reaching effect on the Iranian economy, has again alerted “us to our reliance on oil revenues, and the futility of this…