The American financial and economic magazine "Forbes" included Uzbekistan in the 50 best travel destinations in 2022.

Samarkand International Airport began to fulfill regional and international flights. 

This, in particular, is stated in a new resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers dated November 16, 2021. Festival organizers: The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Agency for Youth Affairs, the Uzbek National Art Center "Maqom", as well as the administration of the Bukhara region.

The 25th session of the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) will be held in 2023 in Samarkand. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Minister of Tourism and Sports Aziz Abdukhakimov after voting at the 24th session of the UNWTO, which takes place from November 30 to December 3 in Madrid, Spain.

Chairman of the State Committee for Tourism Development Aziz Abdukhakimov announced the implementation of two major programs in the field of tourism development. 

Bukhara is a city where many thinkers, scientists, theologians, and poets lived.

The State Committee for Tourism Development is initiating the development of a concept for smart technologies at cultural heritage sites and in state museum

In 2017, the program of organizational measures to implement the Safe Tourism Concept for 2017-2020 was approved. What has been done to implement it?

In 2014 the project " Silk Road Heritage Corridors " conducted an analysis of the tourist audience, visiting or visited Uzbekistan. According to statistics of the poll conducted by the UNWTO was published informative article, containing the data from a survey of international visitors of Uzbekistan, on behalf of travelers surveyed on a variety of places: from the airport to the University of Economics. The initiators of the research were "Uzbektourism" and UNESCO.

Uzbekistan is among the top ten world - leading countries in terms of tourism and the number of historical and cultural monuments, of which there are more than 4 thousand. Part of them is included in the world heritage list of UNESCO.

New route of Afrosiab high speed train Tashkent - Karshi has started on 22 August 2015. The electro train overcomes 512 km in only 3 hours. It should be noted that it took 6 hours for previous train to get there. The electro train shall be speeding 160 km/h on the route Marokand-Karshi.

Reflecting on over 20 years' of work developing tourism on the Silk Road, the 7th UNWTO International Meeting on Silk Road Tourism will be held in Xi'an China on 18-20 June 2015. Bringing together senior officials and experts in the fields of tourism, heritage management, marketing and development, this meeting will be jointly organized by UNWTO, China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) and the People's Government of Shaanxi Province.

"Uzbektourism" together with the Municipality of Bukhara is holding an open creative contest "Creation of a tourist brand (image) of Bukhara region", according the press service of the company.

Uzbekistan and Malaysia - long-lasting partners, among which established strong ties in the economic, cultural, humanitarian, scientific and technical cooperation.

NAC "Uzbekistan Airways" has presented its services and tourist potential of Uzbekistan in Baku and Almaty, as well as at the XVIII Minsk International Tourist Exhibition "Leisure 2015", accoeding to the press service of the NAC.