Pilgrimage, the driver of Iran's domestic tourism

IranTourism1404 (2025/26)

Khorasan Razavi, accounting for more than 63 percent of all registered stays, holds an unrivaled position on its own as the country's main pilgrimage tourism hub.

Tehran Province, with a share amounting to 14 percent, ranks second as the political, medical, and commercial center. The provinces of Fars, Isfahan, and Mazandaran, with far smaller shares, form the main cultural and natural tourism destinations. This uneven distribution shows that the country's lodging infrastructure has been shaped mainly around pilgrimage, commercial, and cultural axes.

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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian

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