Iranian vice president said on Saturday that the sanctions imposed on the country can lead to improvement of tourism.

Despite the fact that the sanctions are a threat and can affect the country's economic situation, but in tourism field, the embargos are opportunity and can lead to increase of foreign tourists visiting the country, Iran's Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar said.

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Tehran’s ambassador to Tokyo on Saturday proposed holding an exhibit of Iran’s handicrafts and tourism potential in Japan.

Morteza Rahmani-Movahed brought forward the suggestion in a meeting with Tadashi Shimura who presides over the Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA), Mehr reported.

“Implementing this proposal depends on appropriate support from"...

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Iran's Cultural Week opened in the Russian capital city of Moscow Monday with the aim of familiarizing the Russian people with Iranian culture.

In his inaugural speech, Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanaei said that organizing cultural programs played an important role in upgrading mutual relations and introducing the country's culture to other nations.

Referring to ancient Iranian culture, art and tradition and to international"...

The Ministry of Tourism (MoT) is targeting countries like Russia, China, Iran and India in order to attract more tourists from these places.

Speaking to Muscat Daily, Haitham al Ghassani, assistant director general for Events and Tourism Awareness in the ministry said, “We are targeting countries like China, Iran and Russia now to woo tourists. We have already announced the opening of an office in Russia. This reflects how serious the ministry"...

Over 600 thousand Azerbaijani nationals visited Iran during the first seven months of the year, increasing 31.2 percent from a year ago, IRNA reported.

A total of 165,522 Iranians visited the Republic of Azerbaijan during the seven-month period, which shows 21.1 present year-on-year shrinkage.

Around 320,000 Iranians visited the neighboring country in January-October 2017"...

The government of Iran has reprimanded Georgia for allegedly forcing Iranian women to remove their headscarves at airport security in Tbilisi, an increasingly popular vacation destination for Iranians.

Several female passengers on a flight between Tbilisi and the southern Iranian city of Isfahan were reportedly requested by border security to remove their religious headwear at Tbilisi International"...

British Airways and Air France said on Thursday they would halt flights to Iran from September for business reasons, months after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would re-impose sanctions on Tehran.

British Airways said it was suspending its London to Tehran service “as the operation is currently not commercially viable”.

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Iran has been designated as a guest of honor for the Ferien Messe Wien, an international fair for holidays, travel, and leisure, running in Vienna from January 10 to 13, 2019.

The invitation was announced during a recent meeting between CEO Benedikt Binder-Krieglstein and Tehran’s ambassador to Vienna Abdollah Molaei in which avenues to deepen cooperation were explored, ISNA reported on Saturday.

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Iran's National Flag Carrier, Iran Air, entered into service five ATR turboprop aircraft it has just received for busy domestic routes such as Tehran to Mashhad flights.

Iran Air took delivery of the new ATR passenger planes only a day before the return of US illegal sanctions that have already targeted Iran's plane purchases from other major providers.

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