On Eid al-Fitr days, a large number of tourists are expected to visit the region's tourist areas, and preparations have begun for the welcome  of tourists.

General Director of Erbil Tourism Ismail Minakhan said: "During this feast, we will take important and necessary measures such as providing the best services and monitoring hotels and restaurants to ensure that restaurants are open to welcome local and foreign tourists."

"We have conducted a special committee to provide adequate services for tourists at checkpoints, as well as to distribute the phone numbers of our committees to tourism groups and tourists to help and solve any incident or problem," he said.

He added that they informed the restaurant association Erbil branch to be sure that the restaurants will be opened during the days of the feast. they also monitoring the prices during those days to be stable. 

on the other hand, the Ministry of tourism declared that during the past months 670.000 tourists visited trourist areas in Erbil, 100.000 of qhom were foreigners and others were from different places of Iraq.