(WTTC) announced the 21 percent growth in Iran’s tourism industry in
2023, with Turkish tourists being in the second place to enter the
Islamic Republic after Iraqis.
According to this report, Iran’s
tourism experienced the growth last year despite the fact that the
spread of Corona in previous years saw a 45 percent drop in its share in
the GDP.
The latest statistics of the World Travel and Tourism
Council also showed that the share of the tourism industry in the total
economy of Iran increased to 4.7 percent in 2023, slightly up from the
previous year. In the same way, the value of this industry in Iran
increased to 740,000-billion-toman during the last year.
Tourism-related
jobs in 2023 grew by 10.3 percent compared to the previous year. The
number of people working in this industry was 1.6 million people. The
share of the tourism industry in Iran’s total employment in 2023 reached
6.6%.
The WTTC has predicted that Iran’s tourism industry will
grow by 12.1% in 2024 and the value of this industry will reach
830,000-billion-toman.
Statistics show that in addition to the boom in foreign tourism in Iran, the domestic tourism industry also grew well in 2023.
Foreign
tourists spent 70,000-billion-toman in Iran in 2023, which was an
increase of 83.6% compared to the previous year. Iran’s domestic
tourists spent as much as 493 thousand billion tomans, about 18.7%
growth compared to 2022, according to the WTTC data.