ASTANA, Kazakhstan, August 14. The number of tourists who visited Kazakhstan amounted to 227,700 from January through March this year, which is 130,000 people, or 2.3 times more than in the same period last year, the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan said, Trend reports.
In addition, there was also a 20 percent increase in the number of domestic tourists in the first quarter. During this period, more than 1.3 million Kazakhs traveled within the country.
According to the Chairman of the Tourism Industry Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Dastan Ryspekov, the number of tourists who visited Kazakhstan in the previous year amounted to one million.
He also noted that this figure is predicted to reach 1.4 million this year. This increase indicates the growing interest of foreign visitors in Kazakhstan. The number of foreigners arriving has increased three times since the beginning of the summer season.