✨ "Behzad Shojaei" in an interview with Hotel News while announcing this news stated; 🔹 The tourism and travel exhibition was to be held physically and online in the city of "Izmir" from December 6 to 8. 🔹 The organizers of the exhibition have postponed the event due to the spread of the corona and prioritizing the health of the participants and visitors.
Create: Nov 12, 2020 Edit: Nov 14, 2020 Regional News✨ "Harmatullah Rafiei" President of the Iranian Air Travel and Tourism Services Association; 🔹 Unfortunately, due to negligence, many airlines have increased the price of domestic air tickets by 100 to 300 percent. 🔹 Despite the order of the Minister of Roads, the airlines have informed the travel agencies and airline offices that they should increase their ticket prices. 🔹 The airlines have informed the agencies that their licenses will be revoked if they do not increase their prices.
Create: Nov 6, 2020 Edit: Nov 6, 2020 Regional News🔹 Cuba is almost free of crona these days, taking appropriate and precautionary measures. 🔹 The country is currently seeking revenue generation and economic development by focusing on the tourism industry. 🔹 After reopening its borders, the country welcomes foreign travelers every Friday and Saturday to spend the weekend in the Latin American country.
Create: Nov 2, 2020 Edit: Nov 4, 2020 International News🔹 The police commander of Qom province announced the arrest of a seller of fake plane tickets in Qom. 🔹 A person from one of the travel agent offices has prepared tickets for 28 people from Tehran to Karachi for 2 billion and 500 million Rials, but when reached airport, noticed that the tickets were fake. 🔹 According to surveys, the office manager, due to his physical condition, rents the place to someone for 4 months, and this person also rents it only for fraud.
Create: Nov 2, 2020 Edit: Nov 2, 2020 Regional News✨ "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 Regional News✨ "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 Regional News✨ "Hormatullah Rafiei" President of the Iranian Air Travel and Tourism Services Association; 🔹 Turks complain about the closure of the Iranian border to tourists and tend to bilateral tourism interactions with Iran. 🔹 In a meeting with Van city officials, we were asked to convey this request to the Iranian government to decide whether to reopen the borders to tourists and travelers. 🔹 In our country, we have to reach a point about travel because the corona virus does not go away so soon and people cannot be permanently barred from traveling.
Create: Oct 23, 2020 Edit: Oct 23, 2020 Regional News✨ Roozbeh Aliani, Head of the Office for the Study and Cooperation of Cultural Heritage and Tourism of Gilan Province, announced; 🔹 According to the reports received from the unfavorable situation of coronary heart disease in Gilan and in order to prevent the spread of this virus, any tour of Gilan and nature tours during the weekend is prohibited. 🔹 Violators and unauthorized groups who travel without regard to the critical situation of the province will be dealt with without negligence.
Create: Oct 17, 2020 Edit: Oct 17, 2020 Regional News✨ Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said; 🔹 The agreement for the abolition of group visas between the governments of Iran and Russia, which was signed on March 27, 2017, provides for group trips for citizens of the two countries, group travel from 5 to 50 people for 15 days. 🔹 The Russian Federal Tourism Organization is implementing the agreement on behalf of Russia, and the organization is working with Iranian partners to finalize the implementation of the agreement.
Create: Oct 16, 2020 Edit: Oct 16, 2020 International News🔹 The head of the Iranian Tour Operators Association announced that several heads of organizations and the Minister of Tourism had traveled to Russia to sign a visa waiver agreement and negotiate with the other side. 🔹 Ebrahim Pourfaraj, referring to the start of negotiations with Russian agencies to send tourists to Iran, expressed hope for a good tourism market in this country.
Create: Oct 16, 2020 Edit: Oct 16, 2020 Regional News✨ "Harmatullah Rafiei" President of the Iranian Air Travel and Tourism Services Association; 🔹 Some airlines have abused it again and have increased the ticket price of this route from 5 million tomans to 20 million tomans again during the past week. 🔹 This is completely illegal and out of the ordinary, but unfortunately no action was taken in this regard. 🔹 There have been 100 flight permits for airlines on this route, but these airlines have reduced the number of flights to 10 to 20 per week.
Create: Oct 14, 2020 Edit: Oct 14, 2020 Regional NewsIn recent months, more than 50,000 tourism businesses in Brazil have been shut down due to quarantine and travelers' concerns about flights and hotel accommodation. This figure represents 16.7% of tourism-related businesses in Brazil. So far, about 5,400 hotels have been closed across Brazil and other cities in the country.
Create: Oct 9, 2020 Edit: Oct 9, 2020 International News