TEHRAN – Iran’s first foreign-based train ticket office opened in Kuwait to boost the country’s tourism industry, said a Raja Passenger Trains Company official here on Monday.

Nurollah Niavand, the company’s Ticket and Tariff Commission head, added that the office opened at the request of Kuwait and other Persian Gulf littoral states.
He announced that the second contract on inauguration of an office was signed with Iraq and the related operators are passing the training course.
Iran had received demands from travel agencies of Iraq, Arab countries, Bahrain, Oman, and Lebanon for the train ticket agencies which are under study, the official added.
Niavand said that the efficiency of applicants will undergo scrutiny before opening offices