1 month ago | By Travel and Tourworld
Hamedan's tourism industry has taken 2.48 trillion rials ($59 million at the official exchange rate of 42,000 rials per dollar) hit from the pandemic in the last couple of months.
The holidays of the Persian New Year is the golden time for tourism, if the lockdown related restrictions carry on to the next Iranian year 1400 , severe harm will be done to this industry, as pointed out by the provincial tourism chief, Ali Malmir on Saturday.
Accommodation centers, hotels, restaurants, and halls have experienced tremendous loss during the time as well, the official pointed out. In December...
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1 month ago | By Travel and Tourworld
Australia's tourism industry is expected to lose almost USD 7 billion placing 320,000 jobs at risk over the summer holiday period due to domestic and international border closures induced by COVID-19.
As per a new analysis by the Tourism and Transport Forum , the short period of December 24, 2020 to January 31, 2021, holiday spending is predicted to be down by USD 6.8 billion. If the border closures persist, as many as 320,000 jobs in the tourism sector could be lost by September this year.
Margy Osmond, the CEO of TTF said that the idea that domestic tourism could replace the economic...
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1 month ago | By Travel and Tourworld
For the tourism industry, Myanmar Tourism Bank extends loan facility. U Soe Win, the Deputy Director, stated that the agreement will allow associations related to tourism that meets the requirements to apply for loans at MTB.
“Loan interest rates will differ depending on what one has to mortgage,” he said.
On the loans however, U Soe Win did not provide any specifics but mentioned that they will only charge the lowest interest rates according to the regulations of the Central Bank.
From the Central Bank, the privately-owned bank obtained a business license back in 2018. It has six branches...
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