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Bushehr’s 6th National Handicrafts Exhibition opens on December 7 and will run until December 11 at the international fair ground of Bushehr, capital of Bushehr Province, CHTN quoted public…

A special working group has been formed to protect Mount Damavand in Mazandaran Province, under the supervision of the National Ecotourism Committee, announced the deputy head of Iran’s Cultural…

Chang Theng Hwee is a middle-aged man.  He is managing director of a travel agency established in 1994 in Singapore.  Interviewed by The Straits Times, he is asked why he has selected…

With oil and gas prices in freefall, it is apparent that Iran’s revenues from energy exports in the coming months will be of the descending order the ramifications of which are visible in the…

This year a total of $26 million has been approved for tourism projects in the country, 70% of which has been allocated so far, said Masoud Nouri, director general of Iran’s Cultural Heritage and…

Foreign tourists coming to Iran have an average age of 50, and are mostly women.

Middle aged and senior visitors fill up the museums and international heritage sites of Iran, which have…

The biggest and tallest hotel in Iran, designed by the world renowned Iraqi-British architect, Zaha Hadid, will be constructed in less than four years in Tehran, ISNA reported.

The grand…

Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi Province, will host the 8th Tour Leaders Festival, Cultural Heritage News Agency (CHN) reported. February 21 is the ‘day of tour leaders’ in the international calendar.…

For some time now Iran has been a favorite tourism destination for European and American tourists who are mostly interested in Iran’s history, art and culture. Pilgrims travelling to Iran from…

The fortress of Samouran, dating back to the period of Seljuk dynasty (11th-12th Centuries), on a hill in a village in Anbarabad county, Kerman Province was inscribed on the list of National…

In the presence of head of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) Masud Soltanifar, the 5-star botanic hotel of Gorgan, capital of Golestan Province was inaugurated, Fars…

Names of 6 Iranians are included in the list of 663 hopefuls from around the world to travel to Mars as announced in the website of Mars One Organization at http://www.mars-one.com.

Iran should explore the potentials of the vast seas to promote marine and coastal tourism, said Hamid Soleimani-Maqam, a senior official of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism…

Kerman is the land of unusual wonders. It serves as a diverse display of the country’s attractions.

  City of Ghosts

North Korea is launching a web site to attract tourists. Different areas of the site, dprktoday.com, highlight a variety of North Korea’s attractions, from a pyramid-themed water park to…

During the first 6 months of the current Iranian year (started March 21), 1.08 million visas were issued to Iraqi visitors. By the end of the year, 2 million Iraqis are estimated to enter Iran,…

For 15% of the population who suffer from a physical disability, being a tourist is not much of a leisure activity, but rather arduous and riddled with challenges.

The obstacles range from…

Ashuradeh is the only Iranian island in the Caspian Sea. It is located on the eastern end of the Miankaleh peninsula, a narrow, long stretch of land in the extreme southeastern section of the…

For the first time, from 31 provinces of the country, heads of the guilds active in tourism industry, met in the tourism department of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism…

The call for entries is now open for the 2nd biennial competition of cave photography, according to the website of speleophoto.ir.

A Dutch investment group met with the head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) Masud Soltanifar to discuss investment feasibility in the country’s tourism…

Following a request by Afghanistan and some African countries, discussions are underway to inscribe the rainmaking ritual (Baran Khahi), of Kaburan village, Tafresh, on UNESCO’s intangible…

War tourism will certainly not evoke joy and is definitely not a recreation as other types of tourism, but it nevertheless has its own place in tourism and as part of the history of travel.

An area of 230 hectares in Beigan, 15 km west of Shirvan city, North Khorasan, was granted to the provincial department of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO),…

A few visits to Mesr Desert in Khur-Biabanak, Isfahan Province, and Marzieh Qaderi, 27, who has studied graphics and illustration, decided to pack her things and move from Isfahan city to Mesr…