Over 2.4 million tourists visited Uzbekistan in January-July, increasing last year's figures by 2.2 times (1.3 million), the Statistics Committee said in a report.
Reportedly, in the first seven months of this year, the largest number of tourists came from Kazakhstan for tourism purposes - over 700 thousand people; from Kyrgyzstan - over 650 thousand people; from Tajikistan - over 630 thousand people; as well as citizens of the following countries:
- Russia - 247.2 thousand people;
- Turkey - 38.6 thousand people;
- Korea Republic - 8.4 thousand people;
- Germany - 8 thousand people;
- USA - 6.3 thousand people;
- India - 5.2 thousand people;
- France - 5.2 thousand people;
- Azerbaijan - 5.1 thousand people;
- Israel - 5 thousand people;
- Great Britain - 4.7 thousand people;
- Italy - 3 thousand people;
- Spain - 2.5 thousand people.
