“What are they waiting for?” I ask a spice seller, pointing at the long queue zigzagging down the street. “Moslem restaurant. Best tah-chin of Tehran,” he replies proudly. In Farsi, tah means bottom, while chin suggests the idea of layering; tah-chin is the unpretentious, crusty rice layered with chicken that has absorbed every last drop […]
When I was 12, I went to a boarding school in Nishapur, north-eastern Iran, adjacent to the garden where the poet and scientist Omar Khayyám is buried. A part of the garden could be seen from our classroom window and the splashing sound of water, flowing down from a water tank amid the plants, was […]
At 1pm on Monday, a family van parked outside the Science Museum in central London . Within two hours, as the family of four including eight-year-old Lucas and his younger sister Emilea returned from the nearby Natural History Museum, they found their windows had been smashed. There must have been a burglary, they thought; in […]
Iran, host to many unique cultural treasures largely unseen by western eyes, is expecting a significant rise in the number of tourists visiting the country in the wake of this week’s historic nuclear deal. President Hassan Rouhani’s government is taking fresh measures to ease or abolish visa requirements for most foreign visitors and build as […]
Visiting Iran Will Become Even Cheaper: MP The cost of Iran travel before the end of the Iranian year (March 20), according to an Iranian legislator.Member of the Iranian parliament Seyyed Hadi Roumiani said that by giving Iran’s cultural heritage, craft and tourism organization (ICHO) full control over the country’s tourist affairs, travel costs […]
Iran’s tourist attractions introduced in 2017 Skylines magazine The Austrian flight magazine Skylines, which was published six times a year, introduced the tourist attractions of Iran in its first edition of 2017. According to IRNA, the content of this edition provides observations from newspaper journalist Stephan Burianek during a six-day visit to Iran. The […]
Taleb Rifai Attends WFTGA 2017 Convention We hereby inform you that Sir. Taleb Rifai, General Secretary of the World Tourism Organization, will participate in the 2018 World Federation of Tourist Guide Association (WFTGA) Conventions. It should be mentioned that it is the fulfillment of the demand of the “Iranian Association of Tour Guides Association” […]
8000-Year-Old Stone Works Discovered in Iran 40 stone works dating back to 8,000 years ago have been discovered in Chaldoran, northwestern Iran. “In Chaldoran, northwest Iran, 40 stoneworks were discovered and collected,” said Moharram Abdollahpour, head of the Iranian Office of Cultural Heritage and Handicrafts and Tourism (ICHO) in Chaldoran.“These stone works were used […]
For experienced skiers who have ticked off many of the resorts in the Alps, exotic skiing destinations renowned for their powder hold a special allure. Kashmir, Japan, Russia and Chile are among dream destinations but the ultimate edgy ski trip has to be to Iran. Tourism is growing at a stupendous rate, especially since FCO […]
Iran Favors Expansion of Regional Cultural Heritage Trainings TEHRAN (IRNA) – Deputy Director of Cultural Heritage, Crafts and Tourism, has called for the promotion of cultural heritage in the regional countries.Mohammad-Hassan Talebian made the comments in the opening session of the first International Training Workshop on the Museum of the Environment and Preventive Conservation, […]