Officials in Yazd Province scrapped plans to build 40 tourist resorts which were previously approved.

Since 2007, about 45 regions in the central region had been designated as so-called �exemplary tourist areas�, and projects to develop those sites into tourist resorts were approved � some of which had even secured funding from private investors. However, the extremely slow progress of the projects prompted provincial officials to reevaluate the idea.

As a result, construction licenses for 40 projects were revoked, 30 of which did not even have investors, according to a statement on the website of the provincial office of Iran�s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization.

By Financial Tribune