Each sizable town or tourist goal has its own Tourist Information Office on the spot. These are invaluable sources of information, from maps to local hotel lists and other miscellaneous items.

The personnel (often English speaking) are extremely helpful. They don't recommend restaurants or make hotel reservations (unless it is requested by you). Tourist information Offices are usually found at the airports and the main railway stations. The main Tourist Office in Tehran is at: 11 Dameshq St, Vali-e Asr Ave, tel 892212-5.

Most probably you will see aspects of Iranian hospitality during your travel in Iran, but the first impression has got its own place and role to play here. The following is a listing of the main Tourist Information Offices and their telephone numbers:

CITY CODE TEL

• Ahwaz 061 33094-5
• Arak 02531 26010,23031
• Bandar-e 0671 23863,23012
• Abbas
• Bushehr 0771 3848,2828
• Esfahan 031 21555
• Hamadan 081 5065,2277
• Kashan 02521 5252
• Kerman 0341 22588,28040
• Kermanshah 0431 25472-3
• Khorramabad 0661 6054,6032
• Mashhad 051 44041,44322
• Orumieh 0441 22620,24020
• Qazvin 0281 3363,2434
• Qom 0251 26818
• Rasht 0231 28119,20039
• Sanandaj 0471 2700,2699
• Sari 02431 2008,5025
• Semnan 02231 2252,4437
• Shahr-e Kord 0381 4254,4888
• Shiraz 071 38032-4
• Tabriz 041 55621,6116
• Tehran 021 892212-5
• Yasuj 0741 2555,2444
• Yazd 0351 38064-9
• Zahedan 0541 90001-4
• Zanjan 02821 3060,8025

Turist info.

IRAN, or Persia as it used to be called, is an ancient country and attractive place that has been seen by travel lovers. This page provides information to those who intend to travel to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Based on a tourist development plan, tourists can obtain visas within few days. Hotels, restaurants, historic sites, new local air lines and air agencies are prepared to receive greater numbers of tourists to this land of everlasting impressions such as friendliness and hospitality of the Iranian people.

There are many things to be seen in Iran which are unique in the world, its landscape, its architecture, its flowers, its people. It will be found that the mosques and the mountains of Iran are more wonderful than what had been dreamt about. For those who will try to write their travel memoirs of Iran, the kindness of Iranians will form a recurrent theme in addition to the appreciation of things seen.