Tourism in uzbekistan

Table 1.

Regions of arrival of tourists entering the Republic of Uzbekistan (for the 11 months of 2017-2018) [11]

Regions	11 months 2017		11 months 2018
	Total	In% to total	Total	In% to total
CIS countries	2 342317	93,2%	4 590740	93,8%
Foreign countries	171238	6,8%	305657	6,2%
Drove just	2 513555		4 896397

The geography of foreign guests is wide. At the same time, the number of tourists from neighboring countries traditionally prevailed in the structure of arriving tourists. This phenomenon continues to persist as before - the share of tourists from the CIS countries for 11 months of 2017–2018. Amounted to 93.2% and 93.8%, respectively. The share of tourists from non-CIS countries during this period was only 6.8% and 6.2%, respectively.

The number of tourists from the CIS countries for 11 months of 2018 amounted to4 590 740 people and exceeded on average the figures for the same period of 2017 by 1.9 times (Table 2). The increase in the number of tourists who have entered is noted from almost all CIS countries. The largest growth for 11 months of 2018 compared to the same period of 2017 was from Armenia (+143.4 times), the Republic of Moldova (+133.3 times), Ukraine (+15.5 times), Tajikistan ( +5.0 times) and Turkmenistan (+3.4 times). The absolute number of visitors, who entered the Republic of Uzbekistan for 11 months of 2018. The leading positions are occupied by the countries of Central Asia - Kazakhstan (2,124,631), Tajikistan (984,804), Kyrgyzstan (959976), Turkmenistan (146,348) and the Russian
Federation (343,128).
The share of tourists from non-CIS countries during this period was only 6.8% and 6.2%, respectively.
In recent years, there has been a significant positive trend in the number of visitors entering the Republic of Uzbekistan from non-CIS countries. The number of tourists from non-CIS countries for 11 months of 2018 was 305,657 people and exceeded on average the
figures for the same period of 2017 (1,71238) by 1.8 times (Table 3). For the period under review, the growth in the number of tourists who entered has been observed from almost all foreign countries that have traditional tourist ties with Uzbekistan, with the exception of Iran (-15.1%). Of the far-abroad countries, Uzbekistan is especially popular with citizens of Turkey, Germany, France, Italy, the Republic of Korea, Japan, China, Malaysia, India and the United States. The most significant increase in tourist flow in the first 11 months of 2018 compared to the same period in 2017 was from the United States (+8.3 times), Italy (+3 times), United Kingdom (+2.6 times), Israel ( +2.6 times), Germany (2.5 times) and France (+2.4 times). According to the number of visitors, who entered the Republic of Uzbekistan for 11 months of 2018. The first place was occupied by Turkey (37928). Also, a substantial number of visitors came from China (29,736), the Republic of Korea (25,634), India (19,161), Germany (17,699) and Japan (16,487).
Citizens from 8 countries participated in this study. As the data presented in Table 4 shows, the number of visitor respondents did not differ much by country, which is explained by the group character of the entries, i.e. the formation of an organized group of tourists entering Uzbekistan. (Table 2).