TEHRAN – Nearly 4.5 million tourists from target countries visited Iran in the first half of the current Iranian fiscal year (March-September 2025), Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Reza Salehi Amiri said.
“In October and November, we returned to the normal conditions before the 12-day Israeli war and this favorable situation started again,” he said on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting attended by reporters on Wednesday, Mehr news agency reported.
He predicted that the country would see an increase in the number of tourists by the end of this year compared to last year.
Salehi Amiri also said that the development of health tourism is one of the priorities of the Ministry of Tourism.
“In this regard, in cooperation with our member institutions, including the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Labor, the Social Security Institute, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and all relevant institutions, a comprehensive medical tourism system has been designed and will be announced in the near future.”
He said: “We currently have over 1 million health tourists per year and we think we will increase this number to 2 million by the end of the 7th National Development Plan, earning 6 billion euros.”
The minister said that the measures taken in Khorasan Razavi, Khuzestan and other provinces have organized the health tourism system.
Noting his recent visit to Riyadh and meeting with 10 tourism ministers from various countries, he recalled: “According to a statement by the Omani Minister of Tourism, the country received $100 million in health services from Iran last year. Our direction is to expand health tourism to all regional countries.”
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