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1124 billion rials loss to the tourism sector of West Azerbaijan

✨ Jalil Jabbari, director general of this province's cultural heritage, tourism and handicrafts, said; 🔹 Of this amount, 538 billion rials are related to tourism and 500 billion rials are related to investment. 🔹 Since the beginning of the corona outbreak in the province, 579 personnel have been dismissed in the handicrafts and tourism sectors of the province. 🔹 Last year, the occupancy rate of hotels in the province was 60%, but this year it has reached less than 10%.

Create: Oct 28, 2020 Edit: Oct 28, 2020

In the current situation, what kind of travel has the most applicants?

✨ "Amirpooyan Rafiei-Shad", the president of the Tehran Association of Travel Services Offices, explained; 🔹 The travel market is in complete shutdown and the number of applicants for travel by tour or purchase from a travel agency is very small. 🔹 There is limited demand for domestic travel in person, but not to the extent that it shakes the travel market or supports the tourism industry. 🔹 There is also a very limited demand for nature tourism, which is mostly done through friendly and free groups.

Create: Oct 28, 2020 Edit: Oct 28, 2020

Airlines are calling for a review of aircraft capacity limits

✨ The secretary of the Iranian Airlines Association said; 🔹 Although airlines are required to follow the guidelines for 60% of aircraft capacity, ticket prices will not change and tickets will continue to be sold at the previous rate. 🔹 There is no standard for reducing the capacity of aircraft in the world, and only in our country, this restriction is implemented due to the procedure prescribed by the Ministry of Health. 🔹 If the government can provide facilities to the airlines, the rates will remain the same.

Create: Oct 28, 2020 Edit: Oct 28, 2020

Paying cheap loans to airlines

✨ "Touraj Dehghani Zangeneh" was the head of the country's aviation organization; 🔹 By order of the Minister of Roads and Urban Development, a committee will be formed in the presence of the Deputy Minister of Transportation and the Minister of Transportation of the National Anti-Corona Headquarters, the Head of the Civil Aviation Authority, several experts. 🔹 The mechanism of payment of currency for domestic airlines is determined.

Create: Oct 28, 2020 Edit: Oct 28, 2020

Airlines recieve Nimaee currency

✨ The head of the country's aviation organization announced; 🔹 It has been decided to allocate half of the currency to the airline in the form of a committee in the National Anti-Corona Headquarters so that the price of the plane ticket does not increase. 🔹 So far, plans have been made to reimburse the foreign and domestic currency of the National Coronavirus Headquarters.

Create: Oct 26, 2020 Edit: Oct 26, 2020

Provincial associations entrusted the pursuit of tour guide insurance coverage to the country's guide center

✨ Rasool Jalaleddin, President of the Yazd Tour Guides Association; 🔹 Provincial associations entrusted the pursuit of tour guide insurance coverage to the country's guide center. 🔹 Follow-up was also done by one of the provincial associations, and finally this issue was voted in the parliament. 🔹 Currently, most tour guides use self-employed rural insurance services. 🔹 Tour guide insurance is especially important for novice guides and is a good support for this group due to its greater benefits than self-insurance.

Create: Oct 25, 2020 Edit: Oct 25, 2020

The new price of the plane ticket will be announced soon

✨ The Deputy Minister of Aviation of the National Aviation Organization proposed; 🔹 The airline has the authority to deal with all airlines that violate the overselling. 🔹 Airlines have complied with the airline's policies and will be dealt with if violations are observed. 🔹 At the moment, the prices are set to be as usual, and the airlines have submitted all their financial statements for the years 1997, 1998 and the first six months of this year to us for the necessary checks.

Create: Oct 25, 2020 Edit: Oct 25, 2020

Announcement of details of the increase in hotel prices in Kurdistan province

✨ "Abdul Hamid Hamidi" President of the Hotel Owners Association of Kurdistan Province; 🔹 This year, the occupancy rate of hotels on normal and non-holiday days has been reduced to 10 to 15% due to the prevalence of corona and lack of travel. 🔹 Only on days when we see a few days off, this coefficient increases to about 30%.

Create: Oct 25, 2020 Edit: Oct 25, 2020

The cancellation of the Iran-Russia group visa was again postponed

🔹 With the resurgence of the Corona virus, the visit of the Minister of Tourism to Moscow to sign the agreement on the abolition of group visas between Iran and Russia was postponed again. 🔹 The Minister of Tourism is currently in Turkey with a tourism delegation and is meeting and consulting with Turkish tourism officials. 🔹 Meanwhile, in an interview with Russia's Sputnik news agency, Ali Asghar Monsan announced the start of group trips between Iran and Russia without the need for a visa.

Create: Oct 24, 2020 Edit: Oct 25, 2020

The inflation rate is more than 100%, but the increase in hotel prices is a maximum of 30%

🔹 There is no obligation to increase hotel rates and it is done at the discretion of hoteliers. ✨ "Jamshid Hamzehzadeh," the head of the Iranian Hoteliers Association; 🔹 Pricing is one of the powers that is left to the hoteliers to decide, and it is determined every year in October according to the inflation rate. 🔹 The price of hotel consumables, from shampoo to detergents and bedding, has more than doubled. 🔹 Although the inflation rate this year has been more than 100 percent, but according to the existing considerations, we have allowed hotels to increase the rate by a maximum of 30 percent. 🔹 By the end of September this year, Corona has caused about 8,500 billion tomans of damage to hotels and accommodation centers across the country.

Create: Oct 24, 2020 Edit: Oct 25, 2020

Four-day vacation; Prosperity of hotels or Crona hit?

✨ The director of the country's road management center said; 🔹 We anticipate two million traffic routes in the coming days. 🔹 The main destinations will be Mazandaran and Gilan provinces and most of the output will be from Tehran and Alborz provinces.

Create: Oct 23, 2020 Edit: Oct 23, 2020

Expensive plane tickets have not been canceled yet

🔹 Despite the explicit opposition of the Minister of Roads and Urban Development and the announcement of the Aviation Authority to stop the increase in air ticket prices, investigations show that this claim is not true and the story of the increase in air ticket prices is still valid. 🔹 Currently, the lowest price available for the Tehran-Isfahan route is 370,000 Tomans, while the air distance between the two cities is less than an hour.

Create: Oct 23, 2020 Edit: Oct 23, 2020