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Uzbekistan leads Central Asia in tourists visiting Kazakhstan

Tourism Materials 30 April 2018 15:20 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, April 30

By Fikret Dolukhanov – Trend:

Uzbek tourists visited neighboring Kazakhstan more often than guests from other Central Asian countries in 2017, Kazakh media outlet Tengri.News reported citing the Statistics Committee of Kazakhstan.

According to the report, the country was visited by 3.5 million Uzbek citizens in 2017. Uzbekistan, therefore, leaves behind Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Azerbaijan, as well as Germany, Turkey and China. Kazakhstan was visited by total of 7.7 million tourists in 2017.

Uzbekistan, for its part, held 39th place by number of visitors from Russia. Number of such trips increased by 22 percent to 120,000 in 2017.

Uzbek city of Samarkand held sixth place in the list of most beautiful places of the planet by Skyscanner travel portal’s version.

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