Financial Tribune - Iran hosted 7.29 million foreign tourists in 2018, about 50% more compared with the year before, according to the United Nations' World Tourism Organization. The country had a 2.1% share of global tourist arrivals and more than 22% in South Asia last year. A total of 4.86 foreign tourists visited Iran in 2017, 1.5% less compared ...

Mizan | Adel Bakhoda: Irans capital city of history and civilization, Hamedan, holds the UNWTO Affiliate Members Plenary Session on Monday to be the countrys tourism flagship in the world. Hamedan governor Mohammad-Nasser Nikbakht, head of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran Ali-Asghar Mounessan made the opening speeches....

IRNA Holding the world tourism forum in the midwestern Iranian city of Hamedan makes it stick out in the world, and therefore, a regional office of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) will be opened in Tehran, a local official said. Hamedan Province Governor-General Mohammad-Nasser Nikbakht addressing the 4th Affiliate Members ...

MNA The Secretary-General of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Zurab Pololikashvili said that he sees a bright future for Irans tourism industry in the world. He made the remarks on Monday in the inauguration ceremony of the 40th UNWTO Affiliate Members Plenary Session, held in Hamedan, Iran. Appreciating the efforts of Iranian ...

MNA The Secretary-General of the United Nations World Tourism Organization Zurab Pololikashvili arrived in Hamedan on Sunday to attend the 40th UNWTO Affiliate Members Plenary Session. This is Pololikashvilis first visit to Iran. Earlier on Sunday, he had met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the head of Cultural ...

MNA Kish Free Zone Organisation has officially joined the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), a United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. Deputy Director of theKishFree Zone Organisation, Alireza Ghaedian, said this is the first time that an Iranian commercial-...

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 The head of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran has traveled to China in order to participate in the 22nd World Tourism Organization General Assembly. Ali Asghar Mounesan, the head of Cultural Heritage organization is currently in Chengdu, a city in the South West of China, as part of his three-day trip to this ...

CNSNews.com The head of a United Nations agency that promotes tourism has joined a chorus of criticism directed at President Trumps travel executive order, calling it an ill-conceived action that will lead not to enhanced security but increased tension. Addressing the worlds largest travel trade fair in Berlin this week, World Tourism Organization ...

Orumiyeh, West Azarbaijan Prov, April 7, IRNA A senior cultural official said here Thursday that the 6th meeting of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Silk Road Task Force is slated for April 22-25 in this northwestern Iranian province. Jalil Jabbari, head of the province's cultural heritage, handicrafts and tourism organization,...

[caption id="attachment_153328" align="alignright" width="204"] Iran has a diverse landscape and its tourism industry offers a myriad of recreational opportunities.[/caption] (Reuters) - Iranian businessman Cyrus Etemadi has had a stand at Berlin's ITB travel trade fair every year for more than 20 years, even when tension with the West meant few ...