Experience

Iran Doostan Tours Co. Pjs

• Iran
• Travel Arrangements
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Jul 1998 - Present

• Member of the Board

  • 1990 - Jul 2021

  Iran Doostan Tours Co. Pjs. (IDT) was founded in 1990. It started working professionally on inbound tourism in the fields of cultural, adventure, and MICE tours. With more than 28 years of experience in travel industry, it is one of the pioneers of tour operators in Iran. It offers a wide range of travel services including visa, hotel bookings, transfer, flight, tour, and tour guide in different languages. IDT is specialized in operating a variety of package and tailor-made tours such as cultural, adventure, nature, MICE, sport, and recently medical for individuals and groups. It also organizes Silk Road Tours, joint tours with CIS countries and the countries along the Silk Road.IDT target markets are spread all over the world, but its main target markets include Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and Germany, China, and Spanish language countries. In 2014, Matin Abad Desert Eco-camp & Organic Farm was known as one of 18 best practices by UN DESA in sustainable (eco) tourism initiated by governments, NGOs, and private sectors, in developing countries, including SIDS, with potentials for replication elsewhere. In 2015, Mr. M. Ali Ashraf Vaghefi, the managing director of Iran Doostan Tours, received Dr. Taghi Ebtekar International Award for establishing the first eco-resort in Iran.Iran Doostan Tours Co. Pjs. has received various national and international awards during all these years. It was selected as the best Iranian tour operator in the years 2004, 2009, 2012,2013 and 2015 by Iran Trade Promotion Organization. In September 2017, IDT won the prize as the outstanding Iranian tour operator. It has been the first and the only tour operator to win this national prize so far. Moreover, it was selected as the best Iranian tour operator by Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICCHTO) in 2017. It was also awarded the “Iran tourism Industry Award of Excellence” in 2008 by Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization.



Matinabad Eco Resort and Organic Camp

• Shareholder

  • Oct 2010 - Present



Iranian Tour Operators Association ITOA

• Senior Vice President

  • 1996 - Present



Nobel Tours ( Outgoing whole Seller)

• Member of the Board

  • Feb 2013 - Sep 2017