Iraq wants to diversify its economy away from oil and toward tourism. Although Western travelers have made headlines in ...

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Tourism -- mostly the religious kind -- already makes a direct contribution of around 3% to Iraq's gross domestic product (GDP). But the Iraqi government says it wants to grow that to 10% by focusing ...

Tourism — mostly the religious kind — already makes a direct contribution of around 3% to Iraq's gross domestic product (GDP). But the Iraqi government says it wants to grow that to 10% by ...

As with many other oil-producing nations in the region worried about the world moving away from fossil fuels, Iraq is keen to diversify national income and encourage more jobs in the private sector, ...