In Soheili Village, Qeshm, our goal is to give hope to the disabled.

Pointing out that the tourism development plan for Soheili Village on Qeshm Island is a comprehensive plan with a coherent roadmap, he said: Part of this plan deals with the social sustainability of tourism and the issue of accessibility of attractions and tourism facilities for the disabled is included under it.

The head of the Islamic Council of the Hara District of Qeshm Island explained: Today, with the aim of realizing the slogan "Family health and popularizing health - good health is something that can be built," providing special tourism and nature tours for the disabled has become a common thing, even in difficult-to-reach areas.

Salaghi Soheili added: In addition to physical accessibility, museums around the world also provide information about all objects in museums to deaf and blind people through application software or audio guide devices, and the blind can become familiar with museum objects through accessible models.

He stated that in order to realize the plan for accessibility for the disabled to the marine forest and the amazing mangrove as one of the biosphere reserves and the common heritage of the world community on Qeshm Island, the mass media must, through cultural development, bring them out of their homes and put their hands in our hands. He stated: "Since the beginning of this year, with the support of one of the investors in the private tourism sector of this island, who is a resident of this village, we are now witnessing the implementation of the first part of the accessibility of the disabled who are blind, deaf or hard of hearing to this forest."

A member of the Islamic Council of Soheili Village said: This important matter has been completed with the aim of improving the competitiveness of the village at the national and international levels with the participation of government and private sector stakeholders, and its integrated training program will also be implemented in the first 6 months of this year with the aim of increasing skills so that skilled and professional human resources can provide quality services to tourists and visitors.

Ezzatollah Zarghami, Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, stated this morning - Wednesday - on the sidelines of the government board meeting and in front of reporters: Soheili Village in Qeshm has been the first place in people's residence, and the Jewel of Ramsar is in the next place.

Soheili Village of Qeshm, with a population of nearly 2,300 people, has been able to make a significant contribution to the development of various aspects of sustainable tourism on Qeshm Island, in line with the development of tourism.

Preserving and protecting intangible heritage, holding ecotourism educational classes, maintaining and promoting mangrove forests, and the like are just some of the activities of this village towards the sustainable development of responsible tourism in recent years on Qeshm Island, the jewel of the Persian Gulf.

Recognition of natural attractions such as Mount Samuran (Bam Soheili), mangrove forests, and the topographic location of the village are factors that have played a role in creating new jobs such as ecotourism resorts, cooking and serving local foods (intangible heritage), expanding and producing handicrafts such as rosebud embroidery, bags, ribbon embroidery, marine handicrafts, and the like, and have contributed to the development of a healthy economy among the people of this village.

This village has a multi-purpose pier with 90 small fishing vessels with 270 employees and 130 floating boats, a gazebo in 2 models with suites and without suites, as well as a tourist boat for tourists with 390 employees.

There are 30 active booths at the pier with 90 service activities, and the village also has 18 ecotourism units and local accommodations and restaurants that hosted approximately 400,000 tourists last year.

Due to the creation of employment in this village, the population movement has been reversed and it has changed from a state of migration from the village to a village accepting immigrants.

Qeshm Island, with an area of 1,500 square kilometers, is located in the Strait of Hormuz, parallel to the southern coast of Iran, with a length of 135 kilometers and an average width of 11 kilometers. It is a part of Hormozgan Province and has a coastline of 300 kilometers.

Qeshm County, which includes the islands of Qeshm, Hengam, and Lark, with a population of about 150,000, is spread across the Strait of Hormuz, parallel to the coast of Hormozgan Province, with a length of 150 kilometers and an average width of 11 kilometers, in the waters of the Persian Gulf.