Press TV- Iran says its first cruise ship since the 1979 Islamic Revolution has completed its maiden trip and docked in the Persian Gulf resort island of Qeshm.

The ship � which reports said were built in Sweden � carried more than 200 passengers on the 127-kilometre voyage from Kish, Iran�s other main resort island. The trip � that was made overnight �reportedly took around 12 hours.

The nine-storey ship is 176 meters long by 23 meters wide. It has 130 cabins and a total of 417 beds and can carry up to 1,600 passengers. Sunny can also carry 200 vehicles between Qeshm and Kish islands on four- to seven-day cruises, AFP reported.

It features two cinemas, restaurants, a swimming pool and a conference hall, the head of Qeshm�s maritime transport and port affairs, said Pejman Bahrami, the director in charge of port affairs of Qesh Free Trade Zone.

�We hope that the first cruise journey between Kish and Qeshm leads to a boost in tourism for these islands, increasing passengers and preventing millions of dollars being spent abroad,� AFP quoted Bahrami as saying.

The fare for each person is Rials 5 million (around $135 with each dollar at the average free market rate of Rials 37,000.)

Sunny entered Iran�s waters in late March.� Officials have already said it is meant to encourage the country�s coastal and marine tourism.� They have also said that the ship would start to visit more Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf and would be even used for voyages to Dubai in the future.