Misc
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Iraq nominates Erbil the capital of Arab Tourism
Wednesday, 23 November 2011Baghdad - Erbil has been nominated to be the Arab capital of tourism by the Iraqi Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The announcement came at the re-opening of the Iraqi National Museum on Tuesday.The French Committee responsible for returning antiquities and artifacts, Iraq's cultural he...
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iErbil Exclusive: Erbil Kempinski Hotel is under construction!
Saturday, 19 November 2011Several years ago, Kempinski laid the foundation stone for the Kempinski Erbil Park Hotel - the first international hotel chain to enter Kurdistan Region then - amid a large media frenzy. But due to unknown reasons, the renowned German hotelier pulled out from the project, and now the same building ...
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Tourists flock to the stability of northern Iraq
Saturday, 12 November 2011More than one million people have visited the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq - a haven of relative stability - in the past nine months, a tourism official said on Saturday. “The number of tourists who visited Kurdistan during the last nine months reached 1.15 million tourists...
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The map of Erbil city is added to Google Maps
Saturday, 08 October 2011Users of Google Mapmaker have mapped road networks and other places of Erbil for more then a year. These contributions have been incorporated into Google Maps and Google Earth, so the collective expertise of the Map Maker community beneftis millions of visitors to the city of Erbil (Hawler). This wi...
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