Iran is hoping to attract up to one million Chinese tourists from next month in a bid to shore up its falling economy, badly hit by US sanctions.
“We believe that the two countries have had common cultural and trade communications for a long time. So we should facilitate and improve mutual collaborations, especially in the tourism industry,” he said. Ali Asqar Munesan, head of the ICHTO, said the decision was “an effective step” to help increase the number of Chinese tourists and “we want to host two million tourists from China each year”.
Tourism contributed more than 7 per cent to the Iranian economy in 2017, along with investment of US$2.8 billion and nearly 5 million international tourists. Chinese tourists flood North Korea as Beijing remains Pyongyang’s key allyIran’s GDP contracted by 3.9 per cent in 2018 and its economy is expected to shrink by 6 per cent this year, according to the Washington-based International Monetary Fund.
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