ASTANA, Kazakhstan, September 21. Over 400,000 foreign tourists arrived in Kazakhstan over the course of three months, Trend reports.
According to the eQonaq information system, 448,000 foreign tourists arrived in Kazakhstan, of which 64.6 percent were men, and the majority of foreign guests were people aged 30 to 44 years.
The city of Almaty leads among the regions in the number of foreign guests. More than 139,000 tourists visited the southern capital. In second place is Astana. During the summer season, 68,000 foreign guests stayed in the capital. Almaty region closes the top three. About 34,000 foreigners visited here.
The west of the country is also popular with tourists from abroad. Thus, over the three summer months, more than 28,000 foreigners arrived in the Mangistau region, and more than 25,000 foreign tourists arrived in the Atyrau region.
"About 21,000 foreign tourists arrived in the Akmola region, and more than 14,000 in the Zhambyl, Aktobe, Karaganda, and North Kazakhstan regions. In general, the number of foreign guests arriving in Kazakhstan since the beginning of the year has increased by 1.8 times. It is expected that by the end of 2023, the country will be visited by 1.4 million tourists from other countries," said the official representative of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Moldir Abdualiyeva.
The number of domestic tourists in Kazakhstan reached 8.6 million people at the end of 2022. This is 1.7 million more than in 2021. In addition, the number of recreational facilities in the country has increased. Thus, in 2022, 284 new places to accommodate tourists appeared, and their total number in the country reached four thousand.