The International Relations and Tourism Group of IETEX was founded in 1988 with the help of researchers and experts in this field with an objective of the development of tourism industry and building activities including work on projects such as studies of the National Tourism Plan, comparative studies on tourism with special interests, religious tourism, Hommame Velayat road projects, urban tourism, studies of ecotourism in Qeshm and Kish, consultations on the programs of national plans in several provinces in the country, strategic plan to organize leisure time of students to encourage them more and more towards this field, national festival of young tourism in Iran, spring development plan to breed more and more employment opportunities and spending leisure time in the tourism industry for the Iranian people, laying foundation of clubs for new and fresh ideas, providing investment opportunities, branding and feasibility of ecotourism in Iran and so on and so forth . Furthermore, the institute is planning to hold the activities of study and research on issues related to tourism including analysis of vision of the government in the field of tourism by the year 2025. IETEX Group has involved in more than 25 implemented exhibitions up to now.