Trading
Kish island, better known as the "Pearl Of The Persian Gulf" is a resort island located 18 Kms. from mainland Iran.
Due to its "Free Trade Zone" status, it is considered as a consumer's paradise with it's numerous malls, shopping centers, tourist attractions, resort beaches and hotels. Around one million people visit the island annually.
Kish Island was ranked among the world's 10 most beautiful islands by The New York Times in 2010, and is one of the most visited vacation destinations in the Middle East.
Foreign nationals wishing to enter kish free zone from legal ports are not required to obtain entry visas prior to travel. Kish Free Trade Zone's total foreign trade stands at around $ 9.2 billion per annum (2009). Investment incentives in Kish Free Trade Zone include:
- 15 years tax-exemption
- 100% foreign ownership possible
- Flexible monetary & banking services
- Extended legal guarantees & protection
Geographical Context
Kish Island the “PEARL” of the Persian Gulf is located, 18 kilometers from Mainland Iran and is part of the most extreme southern coastal province, the Hormogazan.
The Island forms a part of a system of Islands, including Qeshm, Lavan, Hendorabi, Farur, Siri, Abu Musa, … and is the most urbanized island of all the islands and the tourism centre of the Persian Islands in the Persian Gulf with longest history of tourism. In order to maintain the Kish Island’s tourism destination, it has not been exploited for oil reserves which many of the other Islands have.
Kish has pursued a long term management policy to maintain a level of non-polluting industry. Kish Island is a part of the free zones of Iran, including amongst others Qeshm Island and Chabahar. Transit goods , two ports , and an airport serving passengers and exports, support the Kish economy.
Goals
For the last 10 years, Kish Island with the desire to remain at the forefront of economic development has been allocated to achieve these objectives:
- to accelerate the implementation of infrastructure
- to enhance economic growth and progress
- to raise the level of investment and public income
- to create sound and productive employment
- to regulate the labor and commodities market
- to actively participate in regional and international markets
- to produce and to export industrial and processed goods and to provide public services
The Persian Garden in the Persian Gulf
The Persian Garden has been selected as a suitable new “brand” for Kish Island as it pertains so closely to the history of Persia. The Persian Garden is one of the most seminal products of the Iranian mind. For Persia it was and it is representing the story of love of life and therefore a celebration to everything which is alive in nature.
The image of walled gardens dates back to the early days of cultivation of land.
The Persians were the first to realize the idyllic potential of such places and their gardens – secluded from the desert beyond their boundaries. The Persians have given to the western world a vision of (Garden) Eden. The Persian Garden – the green oasis – typifies the Persian idea of paradise on earth Within which two major natural elements are used, water as source of all life and the tree, which for its height was closer to heaven. The Persian Garden of Kish Island is a striking image of a garden like island surrounded by Water, Full of trees, plants and green parks a pleasant meeting place for friends and Families, a place of culture, heritage and even spiritual solitude, a formal adjunct to houses or places, which it surrounds giving a natural image to the urban structure of the Island showing an intrinsic unit between man and nature, where man respects, develops but also shapes the nature in a humble and sustainable way.
