Handicrafts are a clear example of resistance economy/inefficient administrative system is the first challenge of the country
According to the report of Aria Heritage reporter, engineer Seyyed Ezzatullah Zarghami said on the evening of Saturday 5th of September 1401 in the live television program “Jehan Ara” of the Efoq channel, referring to his presence in the “Front Page” program and presenting a one-year performance report, he said: I try not to repeat myself in this program. And tell about the issues that were not mentioned in the “first page”.
The Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts added: In Rozartkhaneh, during this one year after the study, we counted 20 basic obstacles and tried to present 30 main axes of the actions taken as a performance report instead of voluminous reports.
Engineer Zarghami stated: The first challenge we are facing in the country, and I use the term under the table, is that many jobs do not move forward with an employee, we have an inefficient and rotten system that has caused the work to not move forward. This is one of the dangers of the government and I tried to start the transformation from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.
He continued: Many permits were returned to Azadi Street and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, causing administrative corruption and golden signatures. If a person needed permission for an activity, he had to go to the ministry. The first thing I did was to hold a meeting called the Devolution Movement to transfer the missions to Safi sections across the country.
The Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts stated: Handicrafts are a clear example of resistance economy. One million people are engaged in this field and their slogan is that every house is a workshop. This is the case if we start all productive fields.
He added: Out of 400 handicraft fields in the world, 299 fields are related to Iran. We have revived eight obsolete courses, out of which we have announced 269 courses, and now this has been done. In the perspective of transformation, the problem we have is that the head of the organization and organization has a transformation, but unfortunately, the body of managers and agents of transformation does not understand the transformation, as a result, the work is not completed.
Engineer Zarghami said: We tried to solve problems in the radio and television under the name of Afgh Media, and I explained the most important issues to the management body.
The Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts stated: We held seven meetings of the horizon of transformation in the ministry, which is new for all managers. We changed their view and injected courage. The conservative manager does not help the system, if I say hit under the table, I don’t mean hitting the law, but the legal implementation method. Our managers must have courage.
He continued: The task of exploring and researching historical hills and historical sites is only in our power, but the intelligence apparatus has been drowning a place and has done this work. I loudly announced that this issue is under the authority of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, and luckily they were informed.
Engineer Zarghami clarified: Our ministry was assumed to be weak, and unfortunately, our employees and managers thought that they were useless. At the media level, I am showing that the fields of the ministry are important, and many experts are slowly becoming familiar with the mission issues of our field. I open a structure in the minds of experts to help us.
He added: “The second system of our problems is that the missions of our ministry are trans-sectoral and different devices should be activated in our areas.” We have common issues with the endowment organization, municipality and police forces. So far, we have signed memorandums of understanding with seven devices. We have to give permits to campers, for this purpose we had a meeting with the police force and solved the problem of these permits.
The Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts said: I like the life of families in campers, they bravely live with their families in these campers and go to nature and forest. In the past, they could not travel on the road. The Housing Foundation and the Endowment Organization cooperate well with us.
He continued: Cultural advisors have missions all over the world and each of them can act as our manager. In addition to cultural work in different countries such as Spain and Azerbaijan, our cultural advisors are in regular contact with us and have meetings with agency owners. We solved a lot of issues, and in this regard, the cultural consultants were the founders of this work.
Engineer Zarghami, pointing out that the field of tourism includes domestic and foreign, said: In many countries of the world, up to 80% of tourism is domestic; Domestic tourism causes distribution of wealth, when domestic tourism is strengthened, production, employment and wealth are strengthened.
He added: In the field of foreign tourism compared to neighboring countries, the first step I took was that the travel service offices of this field, which were closed for 20 months due to Corona, were opened with my words and we had nearly 3 million foreign tourists.
Engineer Zarghami said: Our infrastructure has a serious problem. We held many meetings with different devices to solve the infrastructure problem. We had zero sea tourism while we have 5400 km of beaches. Tomorrow I have a meeting with the island authorities for cruise ships to launch sea tourism for the Qatar Games.
He added: “It is still not possible to dock large ships, but I had meetings with the head of shipping ports to solve the problems in this area. Right now, our airlines are having problems. They made a mistake and said that if foreign tourists come, they will have to pay more for the plane.” Although the decree was canceled, airlines still have problems in the price department.
Engineer Zarghami also said: Our accommodation centers are not good and the number of high quality hotels is limited. The number of our hotels is less than only Istanbul. We have 6,000 accommodation centers with under 60,000 rooms. With the policies we had, we had a serious boom in permits and construction of accommodation centers. 364 government projects worth 11 billion Tomans are opened per week. We are looking for cheap tourism. Many of our people do not have the power to travel. We give loans to two-star hotels and guesthouses, and last year we gave 3,700 billion tomans of note 18 loans and we were among the first institutions.
He continued: “We are in a good position to invest in accommodation centers and ports and maritime tourism in the field of providing facilities.” One of our serious obstacles in this area is Iranophobia, which slows down the growth of tourists entering Iran.
The Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts stated: One of our problems is the correct statistical system. The sources that have to provide statistics have different statistics, we are harmonizing the statistical system with the help of other devices. We cannot announce any definite statistics. Tourism and travel are the right of all people and our economy is stable because of this. Our people and the lower class should have the bottom of the journey. We planned on cheap travel from the beginning. We have just talked to some parts of the ministry to do this and we have considered cheap guest houses for the people so that the trip is cheap.
He further said: “Tehran was not our tourism hub in the past, but this year, with our efforts, we announced the tourist areas of Ray Tehran and Shemiranat in the booklet, which was well received by the people.” All our five-star hotels were full this year. In the past, 10% of Tehran’s accommodation centers were filled during the holidays, but this year, 60% of Tehran’s accommodation centers were filled. In Nowruz this year, we introduced new cities to replace the cities whose capacity was being completed, and the travel service headquarters was fully active during Nowruz and did not allow a crisis for people to stay.
Engineer Zarghami stated: In big cities and metropolises, people are not used to urban tourism, we tried to show the people by publishing Tehran tourism book that we are signing a memorandum of understanding with Tehran Municipality and soon a tourism organization will be launched in Tehran Municipality. .
Pointing to the lack of coordination between various agencies, he said: “If it is necessary to put a sign introducing a work on the road to promote tourism, we cannot do it, but now with the coordination we did with the Ministry of Roads, this problem has been solved.” There is a law that the roads are under the control of the publicity department of the Ministry of Roads, and they say that the Ministry of Cultural Heritage cannot put up signs. We approved a regulation in the government, which is related to Article 100 of the Sixth Development Plan Law, and in one of the clauses, it allows the Ministry of Cultural Heritage to install a sign.
The Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts continued: Everyone has to help in various areas such as Nowruz Tsunami because the Security Council is coming. The comprehensive law of the ministry has been prepared and is being reviewed in various commissions. We have intersection with different devices and one of our discussions is to use the facilities of other devices in the field of tourism. For a region like Arvand, we wrote a plan so that all the facilities of the institutions like the Ministry of Oil come to the aid of tourism. Coordination must be established between different devices, and I do not have all of these coordinations, so it is not possible to determine the time for this coordination. In those matters that are available to me, I knocked under the table, but coordination with other devices takes time.
Engineer Zarghami, in response to the program host’s question about the appointment of directors of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage without a resume related to this field, said: The building is the Ministry of Culture and the fields of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage are related to cultural issues. My major is civil engineering and I am familiar with various issues of architecture and civil engineering, but I was the head of the Broadcasting Organization and I was present in all areas of the country and I listened and acted on them for hours. If he was a first-class cultural heritage expert in a ministry like the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, it does not mean that he has a good management record and can manage. When a person has managerial qualities, it is definitely recognized to manage that ministry.
He continued: In my opinion, my appointments are the best managerial appointments. I have 20 managers in the 60s, my tourism deputy is in the 60s and is among the first-rate people in ideological fields and various tourism issues. I chose 20 serious young people as senior managers and along with that we used the experiences of experienced managers. Mr. Darabi was one of the best and most successful managers in the time of broadcasting and today he is one of the most successful managers of cultural heritage. They have a good track record during this period.
The Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts stated: One of the biggest things I have to do is communication with other institutions. I used Mr. Ohadi in the vice president of development of management and resources and he was able to get a lot of facilities with his good connections with the banks.
He added: We used the presence of experienced managers along with young managers. Some strongly attack the government, in the provinces many Hizbullah forces like you say why do you choose these managers, I believe that the people who were in the past and served in different governments, if they are healthy people and are not against the presence We use them.
Engineer Zarghami clarified: Some people are putting pressure on the government and saying to abandon the existing situation.
He said about the director of Farsh Museum: Our museums should be alive and active so that people can enjoy the museum environment. The condition of the carpet museum has improved a lot under the management of Mr. Norouzian and he has made this museum prosper. Mr. Norouzian is a studious and literate person. If he created a character called Cholman the 13th, he was able to raise serious issues in a humorous way.
This report was updated during the broadcast.