Al-Monitor | Maysam Bizaer: Tourism is nowadays at the core of attention of many governments across the world because of its major contribution to social and economic development. As theWorld Tourism Organizationstates, the business volume of tourism equals and sometimes surpasses that of crudeoil exports. Such facts, along with possessing numerous ...

MNA Irans ultimate goal is to earn $25 billion a year through tourism by 2025, around $2.5 billion of which will come from medical tourism. Iran has potentials to promote health tourism since medical costs in Iran ranges between one-third and one-fifth of the expenses in European countries. Affordable prices have encouraged health tourists, ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 11 (MNA) Tourism deputy of ICHTO said regarding health tourism, Health Ministry and Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization will create a set of principles and will accredit different medical centers to decide upon their capabilities in receiving health tourists. Morteza Rahmani Movahed announced that the process and results ...

Mashhad, Khorassan Razavi prov, Jan 8, IRNA Foreign Ministry deputy for Consular, Parliament and Iranian Expatriates Hassan Qashqavi said Iran was ready to remove visas with neighboring countries provided they do the same for Iranian tourists. Making the remark in the closing ceremony of a gathering on health tourism here in northeastern country ...

[caption id="attachment_133241" align="alignright" width="187"] Iran to host Islamic Countries' Health Tourism Conference[/caption] Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi, Jan 8, IRNA The number of foreign tourists coming to Iran for medical treatment will reach 500,000 annually, a senior official with the Ministry of Health and Medical Education said on Thursday....

Tehran, Jan 5, IRNA Managing Director of Social Security Organization Taqi Nourbakhsh said on Monday that health tourism could prove essential to develop cooperation between Tehran and Baghdad. Nourbakhsh made the remarks in a meeting of Iranian Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Ali Rabiei with visiting Iraqi Minister of Health Adilla ...

Sari, Mazandaran prov, Dec 15, IRNA Direct flight between Kazakhstan and Sari, the capital city of Iranian northern province of Mazandaran is due to be launched soon to help boost health tourism, according to a provincial official. Head of tourism commission of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture of Mazandaran Mohammad Kaveh ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The number of tourists travelling to Iran to receive medical treatment has witnessed a 30 percent increase this year, an official at Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO) announced.   This year, unofficial statistics show that we have 30 percent growth in health tourism and it is very noticeable,...

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TEHRAN (FNA)- President Hassan Rouhani said Iran will gain self-sufficiency in meeting its needs to all the different types of vaccines and medicines in the near future, and said Iran can turn into a health and hygiene hub in the region. "In hygiene and treatment areas, we will gain self-sufficiency and will be needless (of foreign countries' assistance) ...

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Tehran, April 21, IRNA Deputy head of Iran?s Medical Council on supervision and planning, Mohammad Jahangiri, said Monday that Iran?s revenues from health tourism last year were ten times higher than its revenues from exports of medical equipment and medicines. Jahangiri?s remarks come as Iran is preparing to hold an exhibition on medical equipment ...

TEHRAN, Iran - On Sunday, a different hospital was inaugurated in Tehran which can attracts hundreds of thousands of patients from across the world to Iran. The complex has 17 hospital floors and 21 hotel floors, with over 100 beds, 40 beds at intensive care units, and 17 operation rooms. "Gandhi hospital hotel is providing the most advanced medical ...

Tehran, Jan 8, IRNA - Iran?s Vice-President and Head of the Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO) Mohammad Ali Najafi here on Wednesday described Iran as the health tourism hub for neighboring countries. Talking to reporters, Najafi underlined that Iran is one of the most attractive countries in terms of geographical situation ...