Erbil
City in the Kurdistan Region. The selected sights are Erbil Citadel, Qaysari Bazaar, Sami Abdulrahman Park.
Plan the arrival, not just the flight.
Erbil International Airport
Check airport operation and Kurdistan Region visa acceptance. Regional permission does not automatically authorize federal-Iraq travel.
- Alternative airports
- No alternative recorded
- Alternative IATA codes
- No alternative recorded
- Suggested nights · editorial
- No leisure allocation supplied
- Itinerary qualification
- Not provided: cultural reference only under essential-travel warnings.
- Airport reference
- Airport dataset ↗
- Advisory reference
- Official travel advice ↗
A location-led hotel reference.
Read the actual location and its relationship to this destination.
Read the location carefully.
In the destination or its stated resort area.
Essential-travel context only; confirm airport operation and region-specific visa acceptance.
Complete destination source record · 23 fields
Field meanings are available in the data dictionary.
- brand
- ArabiaTour.com
- destination_id
- IQ_D2
- country_iso2
- IQ
- country
- Iraq
- editorial_order
- 2
- destination
- Erbil
- destination_type
- City in the Kurdistan Region
- top_sites
- Erbil Citadel | Qaysari Bazaar | Sami Abdulrahman Park
- main_airport_name
- Erbil International Airport
- main_airport_iata
- EBL
- alternative_airport_names
- Not verified, not supplied or not applicable — not zero.
- alternative_airport_iata
- Not verified, not supplied or not applicable — not zero.
- airport_and_ground_access_note
- Check airport operation and Kurdistan Region visa acceptance. Regional permission does not automatically authorize federal-Iraq travel.
- suggested_nights_editorial
- Not verified, not supplied or not applicable — not zero.
- example_hotel_id
- IQ_H2
- example_hotel_name
- Erbil Rotana
- hotel_location_relationship
- In the destination or its stated resort area.
- special_access_or_safety_note
- FCDO: all but essential travel to the Kurdistan Region. Check site access and regional security conditions.
- source_urls
- https://tourism.gov.iq/ ↗
https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/iq ↗
https://ourairports.com/countries/IQ/airports.html ↗
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/iraq ↗
https://www.rotana.com/rotanahotelandresorts/iraq/erbil/erbilrotana ↗ - airport_source_url
- https://ourairports.com/countries/IQ/airports.html ↗
- advisory_source_url
- https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/iraq ↗
- country_advisory_summary
- FCDO advises against all but essential travel to the five selected areas, with all-travel warnings for excluded districts and other provinces; Baghdad’s Sadr City and Babil’s Jurf al-Sakhar are specific exclusions.
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