“We can expand the scope of visa-free regime, but the tourism industry is not ready for it” – Ulugbek Kosimhodjayev 

Uzbekistan is ready to expand the list of countries visa-free regime is being implemented, but nowadays it can lead to discomfiture in the tourism industry. Kun.uz correspondent quoted the First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Tourism Development Ulugbek Kosimhodjayev as saying.

“At the moment when the tourist season in Samarkand and Bukhara is at the peak, there will be no rooms in hotels and no tickets for high-speed express trains. If we expand the visa-free regime for other foreign countries, then we will actually discomfit. The infrastructure does not succeed in.

The President is ready to open the Republic for all the countries. However, the problem is that we are not prepared to accept such a flow. At present, we are working very hard to settle the situation promptly, and the state supports the construction of hotels at its expense,” Kosimhodjayev said. 

For information, in 2018, Uzbekistan attracted 5.4 million tourists. In the first quarter of this year, 1 million tourists visited the country.