The coury’s tourist guides have been facing job problems for mohs; The wave of unemployme of tourist guides had started since the 12-day war, and now the head of the guide community is announcing the unemployme of 99% of guides and a severe recession in tourism.
“Mohammad Hossein Yazdani”, the head of Iran’s tourist guide association, told “Kajaro” about the job status of tourist guides:
The job problems of tourist guides started after the 12-day war and coinues. In July of this year and after the war, we had a meeting with the Minister of Tourism and preseed 35 requests to help the tourist guides. Among these requests, those related to financial gras or loans with low ierest from the places considered by the governme had a high priority.
Explaining the status of these requests and their curre status, he said:
At the time of Corona, they gave a small loan with high ierest to the tourist guides, and the repayme of it brought problems for the guides. This time, we were looking for low-ierest loans from sources such as governorates, which were iended to compensate for war damage; Unfortunately, these requests remain in the administrative process and are out of priority in the curre situation.
Domestic travel is not in people’s ability and priority
Yazdani also described the curre situation of tourist guides in the three main career paths as follows:
Due to the iernet outage and embassies being closed, it seems that we shouldn’t have any hope of establishing outbound tours in the near future. According to the talk of increasing the warning level of travel to Iran in more than 20 couries, the situation of incoming tours is also not suitable; It is even said that some couries that had travelers eering Iran at the time of the embargo and pressure have now issued a travel warning to Iran. Even if conditions are right, it normally takes about a year for inbound tours to return to normal.
The head of the coury’s tourism guide association added:
Domestic tours are also not in good condition these days, many places and museums are closed in the coury. On the other hand, due to economic conditions, domestic travel tours are not within the power and priority of people.
99% of tourist guides are unemployed
Yazdani stated that the number of tourist guide cards around the coury is about 14,000 cards and said:
In the curre situation, more than 99% of tourist guides across the coury are unemployed. The job of a tourist guide is a professional and stable job for many people, and now this part of the coury’s tourist guide community is facing daily living expenses without income.
In the end, he asked for the governme’s immediate help to unemployed tourist guides and stated:
Some of the tourist guides earned income from teaching and research in addition to this job, but now due to the conditions of these incomes, this income has also been cut, and the coinuation of these conditions will lead to the exit of these people from the guild. We need urge help from the governme in the form of gras or poteial loans to solve some of the problems.
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