Published on : Tuesday, February 11, 2020
“Iran’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts will be hosting four tourism-related forums in the recently-announced ECO calendar of events,” ILNA quoted Mohammad-Ebrahim Larijani, the director of advertising and marketing office of the ministry, as saying on Monday.
The 6th International ECO/ Silk Road Food Festival will be arranged simultaneously with a Meeting on Culinary Tourism from May 27th till 29th in the city of Zanjan, the official confirmed.
Forum of ECO Head of Tourism Associations, Unions and other Tourism Stakeholders will be arranged from June 29th till July 1st. Also, the Islamic Republic will be organizing the 3rd Confobition (conference + exhibition) on Health Tourism, Larijani noted.
During the 23rd meeting of ECO foreign ministers in Tajikistan in April 2018 , the rotating presidency of ECO was handed to the Islamic Republic of Iran for a three-year term.
In late January, Iranian tourism minister, Ali-Asghar Mounesan called for the Economic Cooperation Organization to think about granting visa-free travel for member states.
ECO is an intergovernmental regional organization which was set up in 1985 by Iran, Pakistan and Turkey with the intent for promoting economic, technical and cultural assistance among the member states.
The organization in 1992 extended to include seven new members, like Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Republic of Uzbekistan.
ECO region with an area of over 8 million square kilometers extending from central to the south and south-west Asia and a population of 450 million inhabitants is popular for its natural beauties, as well as a diversity of its historical-cultural heritage.
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