DUSHANBE, November 22, Asia-Plus — Tajik delegation led by Maliksho Nematov, chairman of the Committee for Youth’s Affairs, Sports and Tourism, is attending a session of the UNWTO (World Tourism Organization) General Assembly that is opening in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia today.
Bakhtiyor Hamdamov, the deputy head of the Committee for Youth’s Affairs, Sports and tourism, told Asia-Plus that the issue of admission of Tajikistan to UNTWO is supposed to be resolved at that session. “The committee has prepared report, booklets, brochures and magazines about tourism and relevant industries in Tajikistan,” Hamdamov said.
According to him, the committee is currently working on improvement of a system of registration of tourists visiting Tajikistan, which is of significant importance for carrying out detailed monitoring and advertising the country and tourist products.
259,484 foreign tourists, mostly citizens of the CIS states (119,931 people), have visited Tajikistan in January-September 2007. As far as tourists from the far abroad countries are concerned, the number of tourists from these countries visiting Tajikistan has increased nearly 2.3 times to 67,553.
Over the same nine-month period, 15,600 Tajiks have visited foreign countries over the report period.
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO/OMT) is a specialized agency of the United Nations and the leading international organization in the field of tourism. It serves as a global forum for tourism policy issues and a practical source of tourism know-how.
UNWTO plays a central and decisive role in promoting development
of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism, paying particular attention to the interests of developing counties.
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The UNWTO membership includes 157 countries and territories and more than 300 Affiliate Members representing the private sector, educational institutions, tourism associations and local tourism authorities. Direct actions that strengthen and support the efforts of National Tourism Administrations are carried out by UNWTO”s regional representatives (Africa, the Americas, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe, the Middle east and South Asia) based at the Headquarters in Madrid. UNWTO is committed to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
geared toward reducing poverty and fostering sustainable development.
