The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) reported that Iran’s tourism industry experienced growth last year, despite facing a 45% drop in its contribution to the GDP due to the spread of the coronavirus in previous years.

The latest statistics from the World Travel and Tourism Council showed that the share of the tourism industry in Iran’s total economy increased slightly to 4.7% in 2023. Moreover, the value of this industry in Iran rose to 740,000 billion tomans during the last year.

Furthermore, the number of people employed in the tourism industry grew by 10.3% in 2023, which was a significant increase compared to the previous year. The number of people working in this industry reached 1.6 million, and the share of the tourism industry in Iran’s total employment reached 6.6% in 2023.

The WTTC predicts that Iran’s tourism industry will grow by 12.1% in 2024, and the value of this industry will reach 830,000 billion tomans.

The statistics also indicate that the domestic tourism industry in Iran grew well in 2023, alongside the boom in foreign tourism.

Foreign tourists spent 70,000 billion tomans 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.

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