Chinese Visitors to Iran No Longer Need a Visa

Iran visa regulations for chinese tourists

With more than 6 million Chinese tourist in Iran annually, Iran’s government has declared and executed the allowance for Chinese citizens to travel to Iran without a visa for 15 days for each entrance. The removal of Iran visa and free entrance for Chinese tourists is along with the recent tourism development policies of Iran to attract more tourist by easing the visa process. Therefore, Iranian visa for Chinese no longer requires the 85 Euro visa fee as before. Free visa travel is an open arm from Iran tourism to Chinese travelers. After all, what’s better than saving the time and fee of an arrival visa after a long flight? This decision was made by President Hassan Rouhani’s cabinet on June 2019, while Iranians still need a visa to enter China.

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Along with this decision the increase of daily direct flights to China and reverse is a good sign of the development of touristic interactions between Tehran and Shanghai. Iranian airlines such as Iran Air and Mahan Air have daily flights to Shanghai and Shenzhen. Destinations such as Tehran to Beijing and Tehran to Guangzhou are also frequent.

With about more than 8 million leisure tourists and more than 3 million medical tourists visited Iran in 2018-2019, Iran tourism is slowly getting into its path for attracting more tourists. Especially considering the fact that according to the 2019 Travel Risk Map, developed by global risk experts International SOS, travelers are just as safe in Iran as they are in many European countries.

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