10.02.20

The number of foreign tourists who visited Tajikistan in 2019 amounted to 1 million 257 thousand 300 people, which is 21.6% (or 219.7 thousand people) more than in 2018, reports the Tajik Telegraph Agency (TajikTA).

This was announced by the Chairman of the Committee on Tourism Development under the government of Tajikistan Shirin Amonzoda. According to her, the geography of tourism has also expanded – representatives of 146 countries of the world came to Tajikistan to travel. In 2016, there were only 59 of them.

The bulk of visitors to Tajikistan was made up of residents of neighboring Uzbekistan - 853 thousand 634 people arrived. At the same time, more than 844 thousand of them named tourism as the purpose of the visit.

In terms of the number of tourists who visited Tajikistan, the second place was occupied by citizens of Russia - 212 thousand, and the third-by Kyrgyzstan-116 thousand people.

The top ten also included Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, China, Turkey, the UAE, Germany and India.

The number of tourists from India, France and Japan increased 2.5-3 times. The number of tourists from Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, the United States, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Canada and South Korea increased by more than 50% compared to last year.

Amonzoda noted that in 2019, the income from tourism in the Tajik economy amounted to $267,5 million through the sale of tickets. Due to the provision of tourist services, the Tajik budget received 403 million 760 thousand somoni. The share of tourism in the country's GDP was 2.2%, and together with industries that have points of tourist services – 10.4%.

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