Travelling to Iran: No Terrorists, No Bomb Attack

Bomb attack, terrorists and gun fire—Iran seems to be an unsafe place full of killings thanks to the exaggerating news reporting produced by the Western media. But actually tourism in Iran is developing quickly. Last year there were even more than one million tourists, according to the information offered by a staff in the travel agency Iran Sebt Tour, WTM.
Being known as Persia in the West, Iran is a land of poets and poetry, ancient and modern art and a great variety of cultures and sub-cultures in a diverse land with lakes, deserts, seas, mountains and valleys. But under the portraits of western media, it becomes a country full of blood and terror, not to mention a suitable place for a holiday place.
“It is all about politics.” A worker who is not willing to reveal his name says, “Iran is not in a good relationship with the West and therefore the media intentionally portraits it in this way. But actually Iran is a very safe place. We are now developing tourism, and it is all about peace and economics. Lots of people travel to Iran, and it is not such a horrible at all.”
According to a research made by Economist Intelligence Unit, the Iran tourists will be close to two million, generating US$ 15 billion in revenue. In the next five years some tourism friendly infrastructures will be undertaken on the Gulf island of Kish and there is an undoubtedly scope for the increasing number of tourists in Islamic and non-Muslim world with which Iran is developing business and political links.
But Iran is still a very special country for tourists. It is very conservative and has numerous restrictions even for the people who are not Muslims. All women in Iran, including foreigners, should be moderately covered and wear scarf, and even married couple may by separated in different rooms. In all Iranian people are friendly and interested in western people though there is anti-America atmosphere in Iran.
“They are very friendly.” The worker says, “My wife is an Italian and we have been lived in Iran for more than ten years, never met any anti-West people. People in here have a clear distinction between the western government and the individual traveler. So this is not such a big problem for tourists.”