By John Lee. The Zagros Mountain Trail in Iraqi Kurdistan has won the Best Wider World Tourism Project award from the British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW). According to the citation from the BGTW: ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) – As it trundles down busy roads, the minibus packed with tourists would be unremarkable except for two things -- its passengers are Westerners and the city they are in is Baghdad. Iraq ...

Iraq dusts off its religious and archaeological sites to lure tourists. Nov. 9, 2009 — -- Envision yourself standing on the edge of the first settlement known to man, or taking a stroll through ...

The central Baghdad square where Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani is about to give a speech on tourism is surrounded by exactly the kinds of historic buildings tourists will want to see ...

Iraq is poised to be a future tourism hotspot reveals the WTM Global Trends Report today (Monday 8 November). Iraq is poised to be a future tourism hotspot reveals the WTM Global Trends Report today ...

Eco-tourism comes to Iraq - but will the green travellers follow? Conservationists believe sustainable holidays could help with the mammoth task of saving the country’s environment “I want to organise ...

Just as terrified out-of-towners are finally venturing back to the Big Apple a year after Sept. 11, a report says the city’s tourism industry would take another major hit if the United States attacks ...

But the area around Saray Square also bears the scars of Iraq's more recent history, which has kept tourists away for years. Just down the road from the square is Muttannabi Street. In 2007, a car ...

Iraq is poised to be a future tourism hotspot reveals the WTM Global Trends Report. The report, in association with Euromonitor International, shows Iraqi tourism is growing fast with increased ...

Iraq wants to diversify its economy away from oil and toward tourism. Although Western travelers have made headlines in once-dangerous Iraq of late, it's probably ...