Official: Around 20 million foreign tourists visited Iran in 3 years
EghtesadOnline: Deputy Head of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization for tourist affairs Morteza Rahmani Movahed announced 19.9 million foreign tourists have visited Iran during past 3 years.
He made the remarks in conference on ‘Dialogue of Hospitality with tourism development approach.
Rahmani Movahed said that tourism is not a political field for short-term interests, but it should strengthen the people's life-style, IRNA reported.
Iran has earned more than $32 billion from these tourists upon global standards calculations.
He said that World Tourism Organization (WTO) has assessed expenses for every tourist in the region of West Asia as $1520 to $1750 and we took average of $1650 for each tourist.
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