Bari Tourist Resort is a sports, therapy, accommodation, Food Service, Tours, and Gathering resort built on the uniquely beautiful shores of Lake Urmia, the second largest salt lake in the world. The resort is situated 40km off Urmia en route to Salmas in a geographical region of the country which boasts of great weather and an amazing variety of natural sceneries.

The resort sits on the shores of Urmia Lake, a rare natural treasure of amazing curative and environmental properties. The prospect of utilizing these remarkable potentials has been among the main incentives behind this establishment. Other objectives include reviving the traditional regional values by utilizing natural elements for health purposes, establishing a resort according to world standards and offering a nice, relaxing and entertaining environment to local and foreign visitors and tourists.

The launch of this resort has put the area on the radar for a lot of travelers and tourists who used to travel abroad to enjoy similar facilities, a fact which in itself can be a step in the right direction for the optimal utilization of national resources and keeping the money this side of borders. It also plays a major role in lowering the travel and amusement expenses for the tourists and travelers to a great degree.

Bari is the first and only national plan for the establishment of a health village which has been actually put to action. Significant parts of the plan are already operational, and it is expected that after the completion of the next phases in the near future, the resort will host more than 400,000 local and foreign tourists each year.

Another distinct feature of the resort is the size of investments in the establishment. Bari is the first investor in a national project concerning the launch of a modern College of Hotel Administration in the country. The establishment of this college will not only help provide the needed human resources for the Bari resort itself, but will also inject groups of trained and skilled work force into the country’s market of the hotel business, which can solve a part of the deficiency in trained human resources for the tourism services in the country.

In the short while since the opening of parts of the Bari Resort, it has already turned into a known tourist attractions in the region, hosting a large number of Iranian and foreign travelers and tourists and introducing them to the evident and hidden merits of Lake Urmia.

At present, more than 300 experienced work forces skilled in various hotel administration fields and related services are tending to different executive, service providing and construction activities in different cultural, sports, therapy, accommodation, convenience and construction capacities. All of these people have been trained by the most experienced instructors for their particular line of work and position in tourism services, and are perfectly prepared to answer every need of the guests and visitors at the best quality possible.