TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, September 2. Tourist flow from Russia to Uzbekistan almost doubled in first six months of 2023, Trend reports.
Number of Russian tourists to Uzbekistan increased by 1.9 times for the first six months of 2023 compared to the same period a year earlier and amounted to 345,000 people.
“Uzbekistan is eager to increase annual influx of tourists from Russia to 1 million people”, head of the tourism sector of Embassy of Uzbekistan in Russia Azamat Raimov said. Number of Russian tourists visiting Uzbekistan in 2022 amounted to 567,000.
Throughout this period, Uzbekistan was also visited by tourists from Türkiye (58,000 people), Turkmenistan (39,600 people), South Korea (20,200 people), India (20,000 people), China (17,700 people), and Germany (14,100 people).
In total, 3.7 million foreign citizens visited Uzbekistan for tourism purposes from January through July 2023. This figure increased by 1.5 times compared to the same period in 2022.