Following the voting results of the UNWTO Regional Commission for Europe, representatives from Uzbekistan and Hungary were unanimously elected as vice-presidents of the 24th session of the UNWTO General Assembly due in Morocco in the fourth quarter of 2021.
The Marrakech event would serve as an opportunity to discuss the future of tourism – the sector hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Uzbekistan’s minister of tourism and sports Aziz Abdukhakimov is to represent the republic in the upcoming event.
Over the past four years, the Uzbek government has taken a series of measures to boost tourism, intending to receive more than 9 million foreign tourists by 2025, boosting the share of the tourism industry to 5 percent of gross domestic product, up from 2.3 percent in 2017, according to the Uzbek State Tourism Committee.
