Some $2m paid to aid handicraft sector in West Azarbaijan
TEHRAN – The director basic of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts Section of West Azarbaijan province has reported that 8 billion rials (some $2 million at the formal amount of 42,000 rials) in financial loans were paid out to handicraft artisans of the province in the earlier Iranian calendar yr (ended March 19).
Jalil Jabbari instructed Tasnim Information Company that the accommodation capacity in the province was 2,291 rooms and 5,395 beds, noting: “With the implementation of the assignments underneath design, 869 rooms and 1,712 beds will be added to this ability.”
Five initiatives including a three-star hotel, two tourism complexes, an accommodation complex, and a four-star hotel with a overall expenditure of 2,595 billion rials will be operational over the following number of months, creating careers for 318 people.
Jabbari observed that very last 12 months seven permits were issued for tourism services in the province and prediction for an investment decision quantity of 409 billion rials and work of 57 persons, explained: “Also very last yr, five tourist accommodation units in the province were being launched.”
Jabbari included: “Also, visits by users of the government staff members of the province’s travel solutions, issuance of working licenses for accommodation and recreation models in a few conditions, registration of the crated positions in the country’s employment checking method, issuance of price costs for lodging and catering models in the province and avoidance of illegal activities of residential units in cooperation with the Regulation Enforcement officers for the use of residential units and reception were yet another measure of the Normal Directorate in the course of the earlier year.”
He also referred to the training and empowerment of tourism activists throughout the last calendar year and reported: “Keeping virtual teaching classes for empowering specialist tourism activists, holding a workshop for tourism activists in a single workshop, holding courses, short-time period tourism coaching classes, coordinating instruction webinars with the tourism rules of the Ministry of Tourism and travel and tourism companies workplaces and tour guides are some of the actions taken by this department.”
In October 2020, the deputy tourism main, Vali Teymouri, introduced that a new assistance package was authorized to pay financial loans to companies impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Dependent on the style and activity of the corporations, they could benefit from at the very least 160 million rials ($3,800) to nine billion rials ($214,000) of lender financial loans with a 12-per cent desire fee, he claimed.
The loans would be allotted to tourist guides, travel organizations, tourism transportation companies, tourism instructional establishments, eco-lodges and regular lodging, accommodations, apartment motels, motels, and guesthouses as perfectly as standard accommodation centers, tourism complexes, and recreational facilities, the formal defined.
