One of the indicators that shows the strength of a country's tourism industry is the origins that send the most tourists to that country. This indicator tells us how successfully a tourism destination has introduced itself as an attractive tourist country.
Turkey, for example, has a mature and capable tourism industry. When we look at five of this country's most important tourism markets, we see only one country that is a neighbor of Turkey: Iran. The presence of countries such as Germany, Britain, and Russia on this list indicates Turkey's attractiveness as a tourism destination for the whole world.
This is while, both in 2019 and in 2022, inbound tourists to Iran have come only from Iran's neighbors. Countries such as Iraq, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Pakistan, Kuwait, and Armenia.
Although a country having many inbound tourists from its neighbors is not counted as a negative. Nor can one conclude that because inbound tourists to Iran are limited to neighboring countries, Iran has no tourists.
But the confinement of inbound tourists to neighboring countries indicates a country's lack of fame as an attractive destination. Iran, as an attractive destination for halal tourism, can have travelers from Muslim countries near and far.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian