Decorating hotels and accommodation centers using handicrafts and traditional arts/presenting Iranian culture to foreign tourists and giving hotels an identity
Arya Heritage News Agency: Using the beautiful works of handicraft artists in different places, including residential houses, is a popular and customary thing, which is approved by experts and sympathizers of this craft.
In the meantime, decorating hotels and accommodation centers using handicrafts and traditional arts, as well as setting up exhibitions, festivals and live handicraft workshops in hotels has been proposed for some time and has been welcomed by tourism and hospitality activists as well as beneficiaries and handicraft artists. .
Certainly, the presence of handicraft booths in hotels can significantly help in recognizing and introducing brands and handicrafts to the audience, and subsequently, this sector of the industry will prosper. At the same time, there is another place in hotels to introduce handicrafts as much as possible, and that is the use of handicrafts in the decoration of hotels, because this issue directly affects the viewer and tourist staying in the hotel. This issue is especially important for foreign tourists because foreigners may not understand the use of these products due to lack of full knowledge of the culture and art of that country, but if they come across such a product in a practical way, they will have a better and more complete mindset. It exists and they realize the use of that product.
For example, the use of handmade mirrors in hotel rooms or luxurious and luxurious mirrors such as Venetian mirrors in the lobby and halls in the hotel, in addition to creating a luxurious and luxurious atmosphere, reveals the use of these handmade products to the viewer. Of course, it should be noted that for the selection of products used in hotels, the best and highest quality brands should be used so that it does not have a negative effect on the viewer.
The issue of combining handicrafts with the tourism and hotel industry and using the capacity of this craft in hotel decoration has been discussed for a long time, even in 2017, the vice president of handicrafts talked about the necessity of using handicrafts in hotels by presenting a plan to award a star called “Handicrafts Star”. He also said: In this plan, we gave an idea that among the stars that are awarded to hotels, we should have a star for handicrafts, and every hotel that uses traditional arts or crafts design will receive a blue star so that people will know. To what extent a hotel has respected the cultural identity and used the local aesthetics that has created employment for the people of the country.
The former Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts also said in the meeting of the production and employment faction and the women’s faction of the parliament, in explaining the plans of the organization for the promotion of tourism and handicrafts, that from now on, the increase in the stars of hotels depends on the extent of their use of handicrafts in designing and hotel equipment and supplies. Will have.
After a brief visit to domestic and foreign hotels, we find that the experience of having craft stalls in hotels is a successful experience and this is accepted as a principle all over the world, so that with the presence of craft stalls in hotels, local handicrafts can be introduced to domestic and foreign travelers and It is easy to make handicrafts for tourists.
Now, in a meeting with the president of Iran’s hoteliers’ association, the deputy of handicrafts of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts is looking for hotels and the tourism industry to enter this area and to use the capacity of handicrafts for the development of hotels.
The plan of using handicrafts and traditional arts helps to introduce this craft as much as possible
Jamshid Hamzezadeh, the president of Iran’s hoteliers’ association, told our reporter about this: The plan to use handicrafts and traditional arts in hotels and accommodation centers is a very good plan and can be effective in introducing this beautiful Iranian art and craft to tourists, especially foreign tourists.
He adds: In this regard, we held a meeting with the Deputy Minister of Handicrafts of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and conducted negotiations for the use of handicrafts in decorating hotels. Our opinion is that the hotels that have this possibility can use this capacity.
Hamzezadeh says: The issue of using handicrafts in hotels is not only limited to decorating hotels using handicrafts, but in hotels that have this possibility, festivals, exhibitions and even live handicraft workshops are held so that tourists, especially foreign tourists, get to know Iranian fine arts.
The president of Iran’s Hoteliers Association adds: In this regard, a working group is to be formed and we will review the standards of this matter. In this working group, measures related to standardization and expert work are carried out, and if the conditions are ready, the issue of using handicrafts in hotels will be on the agenda.
He also mentions the goals of implementing this plan and adds: introducing Iranian handicrafts, paying attention to Iranian cultural identity and art, supporting handicraft artists, giving Iranian identity to hotels, etc. are among the most important goals of this plan.
He points out: Also, in the meeting with the Deputy Minister of Handicrafts, one of the important issues we discussed was the design of Iranian houses in hotels, and the creation of these houses, which are decorated using Iranian handicrafts and traditional arts, can introduce and promote Iranian fine arts in the environment. A hotel can help.
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