Hopes on Iranian tourism rise with the new moderate president
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Still too early for opening up of Iranian tourism, that would be among the last things in normalizing of relationship with Western countries, but here's to hope...
Tour operators hope the election of Hassan Rouhani as president will encourage Britons to visit – and the Foreign Office to lift its travel ban.
Adventure travel companies in Britain hope the election of the more moderately-inclined Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran will lead to a resurgence of travel to the country – and a lifting of the current Foreign Office advice not to go there.
Companies such as Wild Frontiers, which continues to offer tours to Iran, despite the Foreign Office’s stance, and World Expeditions, which has previous done so, have taken heart in the fact that Mr Rouhani seems to want to build bridges with the West. They say his
