The Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts has coordinated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to dispatch 40 economic consultants active in tourism to other countries, an Iranian officials said.
Iran’s deputy tourism minister Ali-Asghar Shalbafian said in a meeting with directors of hotel owners associations on Sunday night that the dispatching plan would become operational in order to activate Iranian tourism agencies overseas.
The tourism ministry also plans to prepare attractive contents in different languages to be used by Iranian embassies in other countries, Shalbafian noted.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the deputy minister said that reopening of Iran’s airspace for foreign tourists was an important development after 20 months since the outbreak of the coronavirus in the country, adding that the tourism ministry will make efforts to pave the way for reopening of land borders to foreign travelers.
However, he warned that entry from eight African and four European states has been banned as a result of spreading of new variant called Omicron.
According to the official, all Iranian overseas consulates are able to get informed of residential units and hotels of foreign tourists when they issue visas.
The governor general in Hormozgan Province has prepared a draft for four islands, which would flourish tourism in the southern province if verified by the cabinet, Shalbafian said.
The meeting of directors of hotel owners associations was held on Sunday in Qeshm Island, the largest Iranian island in the Persian Gulf. Along with the deputy minister some provincial officials and religious figures attended the gathering.
