2-day holiday, the basis for the growth of travel in the country

According to Fars news agency, Ali Asghar Shalbafian, Deputy Tourism Minister of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, during the ceremony of the international joining of Aras Geopark to the UNESCO Geoparks network, which was held in the presence of provincial and national officials, private sector activists and international guests at the site of Aras Free Zone. He said: Considering that the lack of distribution of travel and, as a result, the inability of the local community to continuously benefit from the tourism economy is one of the main challenges in the field of tourism, therefore, with the effort and follow-up carried out in the 13th government, the discussion of the two-day holiday in The template of the civil services management bill should be provided to the Islamic Council. Based on this measure, with the two-day holiday, we will definitely see the growth of travel in the country.

Shalbafian added: Simultaneously with the preparation of a favorable platform for the distribution of travel with the increase of holidays, it is necessary for each of the provinces of the country to pay serious attention to the introduction of their tourist attractions and to give priority to the creation of content and the definition of new routes.

Pointing to the inadequacy of the share of tourists in East Azarbaijan province with the unique capacities of this province, he reminded: that many attractions of Tabriz city, Aras Azad Zone and other cities of East Azarbaijan province have been neglected and the opportunity to get to know them has not been provided, which is a weak point. It is considered that all provincial and national capacities should be used to compensate for it.

Pointing out that one of the needs of the tourism sector is to strengthen the investment sector, he added: Aras Free Zone today is very different from the past five years, and most of the active tourism projects did not exist in it before. But the same favorable platform today also needs to be strengthened and diversified in the field of attracting investors in the field of tourism.

Emphasizing that the spatial distribution of foreign tourism in the country is limited to two parts of the axes and limited provinces, the vice president of tourism reminded: in order to define and increase the share of the northwestern axis of the country centered on Tabriz, it is necessary to take into account all the capacities and attractions of the province from Aras Geopark’s sentence is to pay attention to the marketing of this axis.

Pointing out that the government has made it possible for all economic stakeholders to play a role in the field of introducing and promoting tourism, Shalbafian clarified: based on the government’s approval, all the expenses incurred by economic activists, both in the tourism sector and in other sectors, to introduce the country in foreign languages It is considered as an acceptable tax expense in such a way that this capacity can provide a role-playing ground for all the economic actors of the province.

Also, considering the 13th government’s support for the field of tourism by dedicating an independent chapter in the bill of the seventh five-year development plan, he added: some demands of the activists of the field of tourism have been fulfilled in the aforementioned bill, and he enumerated the approach of its provisions to support and strengthen investment in this field.

In the end, the Deputy Minister of Tourism of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage emphasized: East Azarbaijan province is among the leading provinces in the field of tourism investment. Currently, there are 107 investment projects under construction with an investment volume of 35 thousand billion tomans in this province.

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