Tourist Guide

Today, tourism sector is one of the most important basic resources in supporting the national income that uses to achieve a comprehensive and more sustainable tourism growth. Tourism is a human activity and a developed global civilized industry. that actively contributes to attaining dialogue, tolerance, and peace. Besides, it is a mean of communication and a criterion to measure up the progression of relationships between people of diverse cultural ckgrounds. Iraq is one of the few countries in the world, with a diversity of archaeological, antiquities, touristic, cultural and other elements of tourist attractions potentials. Undeniably, God blessed Iraq with a prominent position that distinguishes it from many other nations. Mesopotamia emerged between its two immortal rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, which embraces the first human civilizations that extended to 7, 000 years ago, such as Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian; this civilization was then represented by the Islamic Civilization. Many of the historical sites in this part of the world (Iraq), which is rich in human civilizations, have been included to the list of world heritage sites, and the list goes on, including the Kingdom of Hatra in 1985, the Citadel of Assyria in 2003, the Citadel of Erbil in 2004, the Marshes of southern Iraq of environmental and cultural diversity, the existing ancient archaeological cities near Iraqi marches (Ur, Eridu and Warka) in 2016, and the ancient city of Babylon in 2019. Iraq is still endeavoring to include some other sites refer to different periods of time, for more reading, we ask you kindly to visit the following link,

tourism.gov.iq/common/files/manshourat/manshour1680081024.pdf