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Back to Baghdad? Recovering Iraq to emerge as 'exciting' new tourist destination

It is unlikely to be high up on your list of holiday destinations for summer 2011, but Iraq is poised to become a tourism hotspot, according to a travel industry report.

Tourism in the troubled Middle Eastern stat is growing rapidly, with airline and hotel capacity on the increase, according to the report released at World Travel Market, a major travel conference being held in London.

Millions of pounds have been invested in Iraq’s tourism infrastructure since the end of the US-led war in 2003.
Seven hundred new hotels are expected to have opened in the country by 2014.

Airlines, including Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines, have also started flying to the Middle Eastern country.

Iraq boasts some of the finest archaeological sites in the world and some of the holiest places in Islam....

Read entire article at Daily Mail