ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Over six million tourists have traveled to the Kurdistan Region in the first 11 months of 2022, with the Region preparing to host many more for New Year’s Eve celebrations. The press head of the Kurdistan Region’s tourism board on Wednesday told Rudaw that the Region received more tourists in 2022 than it had anticipated. “Our plan was to boost tourists arriving to six million people, but according to data available, so far over six million tourists have visited the Kurdistan Region,” Ibrahim Abdulmajid said. With its relatively more moderate temperature in comparison to the rest of the country, and the tremendous nature it has, the Kurdistan Region’s tourism has been a booming sector in recent years. Despite suffering due to coronavirus-related measures in 2020, the Region’s tourism has once again boomed. Abdulmajid in September told Rudaw that around four million tourists had visited the Kurdistan Region in the first seven months of the year, adding that 85 percent of them came from central and southern Iraqi provinces, with the remnant being from Iran, Turkey, Europe, and the US. Last year, the board announced that the Region had received over four million tourists. The Region is expecting flocks of tourists from the rest of Iraq to celebrate Christmas and new years in the cold weather of Kurdistan Region. “We expect the arrival of many tourists to the Kurdistan Region, and for that all directorates have started preparations in their own areas,” Abdulmajid said.
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