Publish Date: 14 June 2003 - 17:24

TEHRAN, June 14 (Mehr News Agency) -- Kurdestan Tourism Festival is to be held on Kish Island in late June, said head of Kurdestan Touring and Tourism Department.

 

Hossein Ahmadi-Niaz added over 100 artists from Kurdestan Province are to showcase their artworks, handicrafts, local costumes, and musical instruments, representing tourism attractions in the five-day event.

The festival aims to draw the attention of more tourists from the Persian Gulf littoral states to Kurdestan, which enjoys clean mountainous climate and running springs and rivers.