Case of Iran
October 12, 2000 - 0:0
WTO in a report available in Internet site under the title of "Iran Opens Its Doors to Tourism" presents: The Islamic Republic of Iran is beginning to welcome increasing numbers of visitors and WTO is helping the country prepare for a new wave of international tourism.
The office of the deputy minister for tourism and pilgrimage affairs, which is charged with the responsibility for tourism at the national level, has taken number of new initiatives to stimulate the sector at national and provincial levels, these include new planning measures, a revised marketing and promotion program, and special emphasis on human resource development.
WTO offered its advice on some aspects of tourism development during three technical assistance missions during the first quarter of 1998. These missions included development of highway services for tourist, assistance for the establishment of a hotel and tourism training school that will train hospitality workers to international standards the mission provided advice on courses, curriculum quality standards, building and equipment for the school. The mission recommended that multiplicity of authorities should be avoided, tourism administration should be decentralized to an extent and that the private sector be encouraged to play a more important and effective role in the upcoming years.
According to this report we can understand that Iran government has made the tourism development turn to one of the most priorities through on explicit transformation.
Planning for tourism development and adopting explicit or illuminate and clear policies in this regard can be envisaged as one of the signs of this transformation or event.
Despite the past policies of Iran in this field, now the development of tourism industry is considered as the alternative industry replacing the oil industry.
According to the anticipations announced by the experts reflecting in media and publications; Iran as one of the developing countries after two decades, because of the strong reliance on the financial supplies generating by oil production and export will be confronted by many problems, because the existing underground resources are limited significantly.
In scientific and scholastically gatherings and also in researching and investigating centers and administrating institutions here are schemes of reliance on the other income sectors, specially in tourism industry.
The office of the deputy minister for tourism and pilgrimage affairs, which is charged with the responsibility for tourism at the national level, has taken number of new initiatives to stimulate the sector at national and provincial levels, these include new planning measures, a revised marketing and promotion program, and special emphasis on human resource development.
WTO offered its advice on some aspects of tourism development during three technical assistance missions during the first quarter of 1998. These missions included development of highway services for tourist, assistance for the establishment of a hotel and tourism training school that will train hospitality workers to international standards the mission provided advice on courses, curriculum quality standards, building and equipment for the school. The mission recommended that multiplicity of authorities should be avoided, tourism administration should be decentralized to an extent and that the private sector be encouraged to play a more important and effective role in the upcoming years.
According to this report we can understand that Iran government has made the tourism development turn to one of the most priorities through on explicit transformation.
Planning for tourism development and adopting explicit or illuminate and clear policies in this regard can be envisaged as one of the signs of this transformation or event.
Despite the past policies of Iran in this field, now the development of tourism industry is considered as the alternative industry replacing the oil industry.
According to the anticipations announced by the experts reflecting in media and publications; Iran as one of the developing countries after two decades, because of the strong reliance on the financial supplies generating by oil production and export will be confronted by many problems, because the existing underground resources are limited significantly.
In scientific and scholastically gatherings and also in researching and investigating centers and administrating institutions here are schemes of reliance on the other income sectors, specially in tourism industry.