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A Brief Look at Iran’s Tourist Attractions
According to the World Tourism Organization, Iran is in fifth place for having
natural attractions and tenth for having cultural-historic attractions. The UNESCO
world heritage list has 21 Iranian sites that have been registered. This includes
20 cultural heritages, and one natural heritage and according to the indicators
of the latest “compatibility of travel and tourism” report, out of 141 countries,
in 2015 Iran was in 97th place. Among the pillars of Iran, the best performance
belongs to the price compatibility pillar (1st place) and the weakest performance
is prioritization of travel and tourism (130th place) and also then the pillar of the
business environment and the tourism services infrastructure (both in 119th place).
Due to historic background and social and cultural dynamicity, Iran has diverse
sightseeing sites, which can satisfy the curiosity of tourists and world travellers and
draw their appreciation. Each traveller who travels to Iran with whatever intention
can according to their aims, enthusiasm
and itinerary see their chosen sightseeing
sites.
Historic relics left from various periods
of the existence of humans in the Iranian
prairies are parallel to the diverse natural
coastal, mountainous, and desert views
in a coordinated combination with
historic structures and religious and
cultural heritages, create a collective of
various urges to visit Iran. The ancient
Iranian culture the examples of which are
eternalised in the historic architectural
monuments, bring about a lot of sites to be
seen.
Iran’s culture today is a complete
collection of cultures from distance and
near past of this land and any person with
any of their own taste and culture, fulfil the feeling of curiosity and beauty from
visiting this vast and fruitful country. The historic relics in Persepolis, Pasargad,
Shoosh, Hamadan, Firouzabad, Kermanshah, Seeraf and many others from the
ancient Iranian civilisation centres, present enough attractions for people to visit
this ancient country.
The natural environment covers more than 2800 kilometres of coastlines and
also tall mountain ranges of Alburz and Zagros, and have potentials for rest and
recreation. The Mazandaran Province coast in the north, and the Persian Gulf
The growth of the
Iranophobia industry
and presentation of an
unstable image are some of
the biggest obstacles and
challenges in front of Iran
for drawing tourists