Members of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce Tourism, during a meeting with Seyed Reza Salehi Amiri, Minister of Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, discussed ways to boost Iran’s tourism industry during the re -sanction period and expanded its cooperation with the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Crafts.
Tourism and handicrafts are the way to deal with sanctions
Seyyed Mostafa Mousavi, referring to the efforts of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce to facilitate the development of the country’s tourism industry, stated:
The Iranian Chamber of Commerce, given the current conditions in the country and the decisions that are being taken at the highest level of sovereignty, must enter the areas of non -sanctioned affairs, and tourism and handicrafts are one of the most important priorities of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce’s Tourism Commission in the field of sanctions.
Mousavi emphasized that the tourism industry was previously known as a secondary industry in the Iranian Chamber of Commerce, adding:
The Chamber of Commerce’s Tourism Commission, in coordination with the Iranian Chamber of Commerce, has placed the tourism and handicraft industry a priority in the field of investment and capital attraction, especially in the current situation, with the activation of the trigger and the return of sanctions.
The head of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce’s Tourism Commission added:
If the Ministry of Cultural Heritage can help the Iranian Chamber of Commerce and the chamber attracts investors in this area, we can see the country’s tourism industry boom. Last year, Iran had more than 5 million inbound tourists, of which more than 5 % of them arrived from neighboring countries, and we have no choice but to pay attention to neighboring countries and Southeast Asia.
The head of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce’s Tourism Commission, in another part of his speech in a meeting with the Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, raised the issue of organizing land borders to enter foreign tourists, and the Minister of Cultural Heritage also responded:
It has no problem entering the land borders to Iran, and the suggestions of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce to improve the status of land borders are on the agenda.
The head of the Chamber of Commerce’s Tourism Commission, referring to the fluctuations of currency prices in Iran, explained:
With the increase in Iran’s exchange rate fluctuations, it will be one of the cheapest countries in the world for tourists, and aiming to attract foreign tourists from Iraq should be accompanied by the regulation of the state of land entrance borders to the country.
Iran’s tourism threat in conditions neither war nor peace
Seyed Reza Salehi Amiri, Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, also held a meeting on the occasion of Tourism Week, emphasizing that negative news from Iran on the world media has reduced the country’s tourists to the country, and welcomed the serious entry of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce into the tourism industry:
After the 6 -day war, which resulted in a 5 percent decline in tourists to Iran, the country’s entrance tour of the rise was up and faced with a positive 2 % compared to April this year, and it is expected that Iran’s tourism upward chart will increase if normal conditions.
The Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts announced the opening of the tomb of Imam Mohammad Ghazali to tourists interested in Malaysia and Indonesia to visit the tomb:
It has been possible to visit the tomb of Imam Mohammad Ghazali as well as the tomb of Bektash for foreign tourists and the issue of providing foreign tourists to other religions and religions has also been raised in several confessions to the Supreme Leader’s office and they have stated that there is no problem; Therefore, the possibility of visiting the tomb of Imam Mohammad Ghazali for foreign tourists is completely without shape.
The Minister of Cultural Heritage declared the negotiations on the development of tourism interactions with Saudi Arabia for leaping in the Iranian tourism industry, saying:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, Malaysia, Egypt, Indonesia and Iraq are among the current target markets in the country, where Iran’s main tourism market is still Iraq.
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Iran’s tourism targeting for the Seventh Development Plan is an annual growth of 4.9 percent, which the Ministry of Cultural Heritage increased this number by a 5 % increase, which was achieved last year and more than 5 million tourists came to Iran. In the year 9, the targeting was achieved, and we were growing in June, July and August, and with the start of the war, we saw a 5 % drop, and in September we rose positively by 5 %. Reducing the input tourists in the conditions of neither war nor peace is quite natural; We have to see what mechanisms we can see to boost the country’s tourism.
Foreign offices activity to attract health tourists
Jahangiri, head of the Health Tourism Working Group of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce, also stated that health tourism is one of the most important and currency branches of the country’s tourism.
The transparent proposal of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce Tourism in the field of health tourism from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and the Government is that universities and tourism managers should be more active in the issue of health tourism in the border provinces.
He added.
The chambers of commerce in the two border provinces of Tehran and 6 provinces of Tehran, Mashhad, Shiraz and Isfahan have begun their serious focus on health tourism and should be taken to set up foreign offices to attract health tourists to Iran. Distance medical services have begun in the field of health tourism, and Iranian specialists are currently serving patients in foreign countries online.
The need to increase the resilience of the private sector of the tourism industry
Massoud Shirin Kalam, secretary of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce Tourism, also said:
The purpose of the efforts of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce’s Tourism Commission is to achieve cohesion to achieve the goals of the Seventh Program. Unfortunately, this cohesion did not exist in the past periods between the private sector and the government, which we hope will be fully resolved. The main issue in sanctions and the activation of the mechanism of the trigger of the tourism industry is how the private sector can be resilient in the current situation.
The secretary of the Tourism Commission of the Iranian Chamber of Commerce added:
It seems that in the current situation, serious attention should be paid to the strengthening of domestic tourism, and with the presence of the National Day of Independence, the countries have been present at foreign embassies and began to attract foreign tourists to Iran through the embassies.
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