Kurdistan tourism

[alan131210]

here we can all post news about tourism sector in kurdistan

[alan131210]

With the rise in the number of yearly tourists in the KRG, the government is developing an electronic tourism system in Kurdistan.

The KRG Tourism Committee, with the assistance of the human development directorate, has been able to offer a number of courses for tourist development in the past two months. The last course was taught with the presence of 23 members from the KRG General Tourist Committee.

The course lasted for four days under the name of ‘E-tourism development’ in Erbil with the careful guidance of the General Tourist Committee and ETTC.

Electronic tourism or e-tourism is part of electronic trade, which encompasses the fastest developing technologies, such as communication and information industry, hospitality and management\marketing of strategic planning industry.

PUKmedia

[alan131210]

Official Website Of south Kurdistan Tourism
http://www.tourismkurdistan.com/


Tourism Resources in Kurdistan
http://www.tourisminkurdistan.com/

[zaxo10]

Travel to Kurdistan on facebook

[alan131210]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huvX5sBX4C8&feature=g-all-c&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1   

[alan131210]

ERBIL, Aug.21 (AKnews)- Some 109,000 tourists, most of them from Iraq, visited the Kurdistan Region Thursday through Sunday, said spokesperson for Kurdistan Investment Board.

90,000 of the visitors came for Iraqi provinces and the rest from the neighboring and other countries to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr and their holiday in Kurdistan, said Nader Rosti.

The official said that the visitors faced no issues for their stay in Kurdistan and in case of any difficulty the emergency teams from the Investment Board visited them to provide them with tents.

Rosti said there were some restaurants which undertook to run business during the Eid but they did not keep their promise and will be penalized on time.

Since the fall of Saddam Hussein regime in 2003, annually a huge number of visitors from Iraqi provinces and the foreign countries arrive in Kurdistan which is home to hundreds of tourist attractions and enjoys a relative security comparing to the rest of Iraq.

http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/2/322523/

[crazyhorse]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huvX5sBX4C8&feature=g-all-c

I see a lot of woman in fully covered clothes in video's lately.
When I was in Slemani / Hewler some years back, especially just after the collapse of the Ba'ath regime, there were not many woman dressed like that (with the ugly Arab clothes, which you see on Turkish/Morrocon women in Europe).

Are these people Kurds, or are they Arabs who came to Kurdistan?

They are destroying the street view with their traditional, anti-women clothing. There is nothing wrong with some older Kurdish women who wear a headscarf or something like that, but I hate those fully covered Arab clothes, with their skirts, jackets in the middle of the summer. That is not modern, it is not hygienic and it is very ugly.

[diako_ber]

arab tourists.

[brendar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huvX5sBX4C8&feature=g-all-c

I see a lot of woman in fully covered clothes in video's lately.
When I was in Slemani / Hewler some years back, especially just after the collapse of the Ba'ath regime, there were not many woman dressed like that (with the ugly Arab clothes, which you see on Turkish/Morrocon women in Europe).

Are these people Kurds, or are they Arabs who came to Kurdistan?

They are destroying the street view with their traditional, anti-women clothing. There is nothing wrong with some older Kurdish women who wear a headscarf or something like that, but I hate those fully covered Arab clothes, with their skirts, jackets in the middle of the summer. That is not modern, it is not hygienic and it is very ugly.

They are arabs and they have dominated hawler and slemani.

[diako_ber]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huvX5sBX4C8&feature=g-all-c

I see a lot of woman in fully covered clothes in video's lately.
When I was in Slemani / Hewler some years back, especially just after the collapse of the Ba'ath regime, there were not many woman dressed like that (with the ugly Arab clothes, which you see on Turkish/Morrocon women in Europe).

Are these people Kurds, or are they Arabs who came to Kurdistan?

They are destroying the street view with their traditional, anti-women clothing. There is nothing wrong with some older Kurdish women who wear a headscarf or something like that, but I hate those fully covered Arab clothes, with their skirts, jackets in the middle of the summer. That is not modern, it is not hygienic and it is very ugly.

They are arabs and they have dominated hawler and slemani.

There mostly tourists though. Especially in the summer months you see a lot of Arabs in hawler (holiday). However, if you go in October you see that it all isn't so bad.

[diako_ber]

According to official statistics, 4% of people living in hawler are Arabs. Though I've heard that Arabs in Iraq/Kurdistan are in favor of an attack on Kurdistan!

[Cewlik]

They are destroying the street view with their traditional, anti-women clothing.

The women have the right to dress themselves traditionally. And its not anti-women clothing, its religious clothing and many Kurdish women are religious.

[diako_ber]

The younger generation isnt that religious anymore.

[crazyhorse]

They are destroying the street view with their traditional, anti-women clothing.

The women have the right to dress themselves traditionally. And its not anti-women clothing, its religious clothing and many Kurdish women are religious.

I know many Kurdish women are religious. But that is not a valid reason to dress yourself like an uneducated, oppressed woman from the 9th century.
How they dress is ugly, it is unhygienic (especially in hot countries) and in 7/10 cases they're probably forced to dress like that by their even dumber husbands.

I don't know many Kurdish women who dress like that. Not a single women/girl in my family wears a headscarf, except for my grandmother, but she started doing that after the dead of my grandfather in 1991. Most of them do believe in God, but they are educated, are not extreme muslims (they just believe).

Nothing wrong with that, although I'm an atheist myself.

But diako is right, the younger generation is not very religious. And I think that is a good thing because religion is only bad for progress.

Think about it... if there weren't religious wars and oppressing etc. in the middle-ages, how far would humanity be now? We might have reached what we have now 400 years back.

[Cewlik]

But diako is right, the younger generation is not very religious.

I hear in a German TV that more young women have a headscarf in Kurdistan.