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2022-12-06 20:21
Global tourism on track to gain 65% of pre-COVID levels by year-end
TEHRAN – The UN World Tourism Organization believes that global tourism is on track to reach 65 percent of pre-pandemic levels of international visitors by the end of 2022.
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2022-06-17 18:01
Innovative, resilient tourism discussed at UNWTO Asia-Pacific meeting
TEHRAN – Representatives of 19 countries from the Asia Pacific region, including the Islamic Republic of Iran, have discussed tourism resilience through innovation and digitalization during a meeting organized by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
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2022-05-17 20:51
Global tourism estimated to achieve full recovery by 2025
TEHRAN – Global tourism is projected to gain full recovery by 2025, says GlobalData, a leading data, and analytics company.
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2022-04-12 18:12
Tehran Intl. Holy Quran Exhibition returns to live programs
TEHRAN – The 29th edition of the International Holy Quran Exhibition will be held in person in Tehran after last year’s online-only version.
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2022-03-05 20:00
Empowering women at forefront of tourism recovery, UNWTO says
TEHRAN – The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has formulated guidelines to help both governments and businesses better address the needs of women in the tourism sector.
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2022-02-18 21:20
UNWTO offers support to member states for tourism revival
TEHRAN – The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has said it provides support with member states to gain tourism revival.
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2022-02-11 17:29
Teacher recruitment on agenda to shore up education after pandemic
TEHRAN - The Ministry of Education is planning to employ up to 50,000 teachers as the administration has decided to give a boost to the education sector in the country once schools are fully recovered from closures imposed during the coronavirus pandemic.
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2022-01-19 18:39
Ten richest men double fortunes in pandemic
And that’s while incomes of 99 percent of the rest of humanity has fallen. According to Oxfam, new billionaires made so much money every 26 hours, as inequality contributes to the death of one person every four seconds
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2021-12-14 21:15
Dezful Museum of Anthropology reopens as pandemic eases
TEHRAN – Dezful Museum of Anthropology reopened to visitors on Monday after about two years of closure caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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2021-11-07 18:36
“Hope Puppet” born to heal wounds of coronavirus in Iran
TEHRAN – Iran has launched a puppet making festival to bring back hope to the people who have been afflicted physically or mentally amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2021-10-12 18:12
Iran national handicrafts exhibit canceled amid COVID uncertainty
TEHRAN – The 35th national handicrafts exhibition of Iran has been canceled due to ongoing uncertainty around the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2021-10-10 21:17
Iconic Azadi Tower welcomes visitors after COVID shutdown
TEHRAN – Borj-e Azadi (Azadi Tower), widely known as the most iconic landmark of the Iranian capital, reopened to visitors on Sunday after some five months of closure caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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2021-09-28 21:30
Tiny teahouse in Tehran brews up love for customers
TEHRAN - With his trimmed beard, red scarf, and bronze-colored waistcoat, Kazem Mabhutian serves a steady stream of customers in the smallest and oldest teahouse in Tehran, but at 63 years old, he is counting on God to find him a successor.
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2021-09-27 17:07
Iran plans to resume tourist visas next month: minister
TEHRAN – Iran plans to resume tourist visas by next month after months of suspension amid strict government measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the tourism minister announced on Monday concurrent with World Tourism Day.
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2021-09-25 18:56
Tourism has unique ability to make sure nobody is left behind: UNWTO
TEHRAN – On the occasion of World Tourism Day, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has ensured every part of the sector has a say in its future – including communities, minorities, youth, and those who would otherwise be at risk of being left behind.
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2021-09-24 17:40
Lorestan’s museums begin to reopen
TEHRAN – Cultural heritage museums and historical sites across Lorestan province began to reopen Thursday after being closed for weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2021-09-13 18:36
Iranian hotels suffer $4.8 billion loss since start of pandemic
TEHRAN – Iranian hotels have lost 202 trillion rials (some $4.8 billion at the official exchange rate of 42,000 rials per dollar( of potential revenues as the COVID-19 pandemic drastically curbed travel in the country, the Iranian Hotel Association has said.
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2021-08-27 18:23
Dealing with effects of pandemic on artists’ lives top priority for new culture minister
TEHRAN – Iran’s new culture minister has said that dealing with the repercussion of the pandemic on the lives of artists is a top priority for his organization.
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2021-08-04 18:47
By Priadji
Indonesia-Iran relations in the time of Covid-19
TEHRAN - Foreign Ministries of Indonesia and Iran had conducted the meeting of the Committee on Bilateral Consultation on July 5th 2021 through virtual platform/basis.
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2021-08-01 18:47
International fiction festival on announces winners
TEHRAN – Iran’s international fiction festival on the coronavirus pandemic announced winners on Sunday.
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2021-07-07 19:21
Brief
Thespians stage performance to keep hope alive amid pandemic
TEHRAN – A cast of 100 thespians staged a performance named “Life Is Still on” in a crowded neighborhood in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz on Wednesday to encourage people to live with hope during the pandemic.
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2021-06-30 12:29
Second year into pandemic: national university entrance exam kicks off
TEHRAN – As the COVID-19 pandemic still poses a serious challenge, Iran’s national university entrance exam (Konkur) started on Wednesday under health protocols and will run through July 3.
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2021-06-25 13:30
Ayatollah Khamenei receives first dose of Iranian-made coronavirus vaccine
TEHRAN – On Friday, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei received the first dose of the Iranian-made COVIRAN BAREKAT vaccine against the coronavirus pandemic.
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2021/06/19
By Fatemeh Fazli
India's Covid-19 crisis dents PM Modi's image
The devastating Covid-19 crisis in India has irreparably dented the well-crafted image of the country's premier, Narendra Modi, with questions being raised over his style of governance during the pandemic.
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2021-06-16 17:09
By Salman Parviz
Many changes due to pandemic irreversible
Will the “new normal” bring new opportunities?
Previously plagues such as the Black Death and the Spanish flu pandemic had huge ramifications for the world afterward. Black Death is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history from 1346 to 1353. Some 75-200 million people in Euroasia and North Africa and Europe perished.
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2021-06-12 18:37
Book teaches world how to rethink traditional systems in pandemic published in Persian
TEHRAN – “COVID-19: The Great Reset”, a book co-authored by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret to teach the world how to rethink traditional systems in the pandemic has been published in Persian.
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2021-05-11 16:43
ICRC ready to support Iran’s IRCS for vaccinating refugees
TEHRAN – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is ready to support the Iranian Red Crescent Society for vaccinating refugees living in the country against the coronavirus.
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2021-04-30 15:51
Iranian anti-corona spray unveiled
TEHRAN – Iran unveiled a domestically-made spray on Thursday, which is used to convert ordinary masks into masks that can kill coronavirus.
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2021-04-28 21:33
Sanctions prevent encountering health crisis
TEHRAN— Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iranian ambassador to the United Nations criticized United Nations Security Council’s inaction towards unjust sanctions against Iran during a severe pandemic on Wednesday.
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2021-04-03 19:02
Online art business brisk amid pandemic: gallery owner
TEHRAN – Lili Golestan, the owner of a major art gallery in Tehran, has said that her gallery quickly adapted to survive over the one-year-plus pandemic despite her preconception about virtual art showcases.