DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, February 12. Tajikistan was visited by nearly 1.358 million foreign citizens in 2023, Trend reports.
According to the Committee on the Tourism Development under the Government of Tajikistan, out of this number, 1.256 million people, or 92.5 percent, were from CIS countries, and 101,833 people, or 7.5 percent, were from other countries.
Among the total number of foreign citizens visiting Tajikistan, 1.201 million were tourists, which is 201,000 tourists or 20.2 percent more than in 2022.
The larger number of visitors arrived from Uzbekistan - 805,900 people (an increase of 15 percent compared to 2022), from Russia arrived 262,400 people (an increase of 92.8 percent), from Kazakhstan - 31,500 people (a 31.8 percent increase), from China - 13,000 people (an increase of 4.9 times), and from Türkiye - 10,800 people (a 61.2 percent increase).
As of January 1, 2024, there were 224 tourist companies operating in the country under licenses issued by the Committee on the Tourism Development. Out of these, 41 tourist companies were in the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region, 106 in the city of Dushanbe, 45 in the Sughd region, 17 in the Khatlon region, and 15 under the jurisdiction of cities and districts.
Currently, with the support of the Government of Tajikistan and development partners, two investment projects aimed at developing the tourism sector are being implemented.