ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Approximately four million tourists visited the Kurdistan Region in the first seven months of this year. They were mostly people from Iraqi central and southern provinces, a tourism official said on Wednesday.
“Three million and 779 thousand tourists have come to the Kurdistan Region from January 1, 2022 to June 1, 2022,” Ibrahim Abdulmajid, head of Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) tourism board’s media department, told Rudaw’s Hemin Baban on Wednesday.
He added that 85 percent of these tourists came from Iraq’s central and southern provinces while the rest were from Iran, Turkey, Europe and the US.
Abdulmajid also said that each Iraqi tourist spends about $300 during their trip, noting that the Region has 3,100 tourism places.
The board said in July that 3.1 million tourists had visited the Kurdistan Region in the first half of 2022.
Tourism in the Kurdistan Region has been a booming sector in recent years, but it was hit by coronavirus-related measures in 2020. The sector has once again boomed over the past year.
Kurdistan Region has a moderate temperature compared to the rest of the country.
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