<DIV><p>Companion Guides is a travel guide series that targets business travelers and expatriate residents.</p><p>The oil-rich Kurdish region of northern Iraq is now a semi-autonomous state within Iraq. Stable and surprisingly prosperous, the KRG is a magnet for foreign investment and an ever more important business hub for the region. With a landscape rather like Switzerland, Iraqi Kurdistan is a tourist destination of growing significance.</p><BR></DIV>