China is becoming an emerging source market for Dubai's tourism sector and the Middle East city has stepped up partnerships with Chinese firms to tap the world's largest outbound tourism market…
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Along with the worldwide community of museums, Iran will celebrate International Museum Day on and around May 18 under the theme "Hyperconnected museums: New approaches, new publics".
People nixing vacations to Hawaii's Big Island has cost the tourism industry millions of dollars as the top attraction, Kilauea volcano, keeps spewing lava.
Global tourism is responsible for about 8% of global greenhouse emissions—four times more than previously believed, according to the results of a new study.
The findings, published in…
Following the terror attacks in Surabaya and Sidoarjo on the Indonesian Island of Java on Sunday and Monday, Indonesia's Tourism Ministry said it had coordinated with related authorities to…
Following his visit to the historical city of Tabriz in East Azarbaijan Province, John Green, the chief secretary of the UK embassy in Iran, pledged to take effective measures to promote the…
Tehran Municipality is setting up a new department to oversee tourism and cultural heritage affairs, Deputy Mayor for Social and Cultural Affairs Valiollah Shojapourian said.
The tourism industry in the Middle East and North Africa region is expected to generate $350 billion by 2027, according to MENA Research Partners, a leading research company in the region.
Following complaints about the exclusion of travel services from the list of priorities for foreign exchange allocation, the Central Bank of Iran has pledged in a verbal announcement that tour…
A two-day vintage car procession is to be held on May 16 and 17 across the streets of the capital Tehran to wrap up the ongoing classic vehicle show at Sa'adabad Palace.
The historical house of Mirza Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi, an Iranian poet and journalist (1889-1939), in Yazd Province is to be handed over to the municipality to resume its suspended retrofitting…
A museum is planned to be set up in Qazvin Province to display objects dating from the Iron Age period, the head of the provincial office of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism…
While warnings that Hawaii's Kilauea volcano could shoot boulders and ash out of its summit crater are prompting people to rethink their plans to visit the Big Island, local tourism officials…
Head of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization Ali Asghar Mounesan inaugurated a project to build 25 ecolodges and four tourist complexes on Thursday during a trip to…
Since the lifting of anti-Iran sanctions on January 2016, as part of the deal it signed with six powers, 11 new planes have joined Iran Air’s fleet.
The impact of the long-awaited…
Etisalat has announced a partnership with the Department of Culture and Tourism and Abu Dhabi Airports to offer all visitors a customized Visitor Pack. As part of the partnership, passengers…
UN World Tourism Organization Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili said Thursday that China is one of the most important tourist markets not only for the Middle East, but for the whole world…
The National Museum of Iran has been visited by over 270,000 people since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21), registering a remarkable record in the museum's history.
Iran will host the final evaluation ceremony of World Craft Council's Award of Excellence for Handicrafts in the Asia Pacific region in early August for the third time. Iran has participated in…
The scheme to introduce a two-week winter holiday in the academic calendar does not have much support among lawmakers who believe it would cause a chaos in the nationwide school schedule.…
A number of tourism facilities were officially inaugurated in the northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi on Monday during a ceremony attended by Ali Asghar Mounesan, head of Iran's Cultural…
Iranian pilgrims to Iraq have to make their religious journey without any officially provided cash in foreign currency for the time being until the authorized banks manage to offer Iraqi dinar…
Revitalization and Utilization Fund for Historical Places (known by its Persian acronym SAABTA) is holding an auction to hand over four historic monuments in East Azarbaijan Province to private…
Japan Airlines is examining establishment of a new low-fare carrier to increase capacity and take on rising competition from budget operators in Asia's second-largest economy.
Starting a…
Tourism is responsible for a twelfth of world greenhouse gas emissions, and a holiday boom is complicating a global drive to slow climate change, scientists have said.
