TEHRAN – This tourist hub of Persian Gulf will have 9,000 beds of its much needed rooms to serve travelers by yearend, executive director of Kish Institute for Promoting Tourism Ali Ghamkhar said Friday during inauguration ceremony of Kish Grand Hotel.

According to the Persian service of IRNA, the island is going to allocate more human resources for further training in hotel management and tourism sector in order to offer a new impetus to this tourist magnet zone. The hotel, 44th built in Kish, was constructed at the cost of 50 billion rials within four years, one of the investors elaborated, adding that tourism is a vital component of the island’s economy and requires more support from the government.

Kish Grand Hotel, sitting on 5,400 square meters of land, occupies 6,400 square meters with 60 rooms and may receive 180 tourists.