Shafaq News/ The Kurdistan region is setting the stage for 20 million tourists annually with short, medium, and long-term plans to develop tourism, the head of the region's commission of Tourism, Amal Jalal, said in a press conference on Saturday.

"More than two million tourists have visited Kurdistan in the first fourth months of 2022," she said, "we project it would grow to six million by the end of the year."

"The plan acquires its concrete contours in two years if we manage to provide proper infrastructure and administrative facilities, and unify and reduce taxation. The prices inside Kurdistan are considerably higher," she added. 

"The commission focused on developing distinct projects in each governorate in order to attract tourists to all the areas in the region," she continued. 

In the same context, an official statement by the Tourism directorate in Halabja said that more than 5,000 tourists, most of whom were from mid and south Iraq, visited the governorate on Friday.