The first time that Uzbekistan will develop business tourism: it is planned to borrow the experience of Germany and the UAE

Business tourism is a very important and specific branch of tourism activity. Other types of tourism, business, differs, first of all, from its monetary component of the question: after all, how much the trip will develop, very often the opportunity to get the benefit of the country's multimillion depends. In Uzbekistan, business tourism is underdeveloped, but has huge potential.

According to experts, the market for business tourism in Uzbekistan is characterized by an active development, but at the same time spontaneous. At the same time, the lack of reliable statistical information makes it impossible to qualitatively badyze the main markets of business tourism in Uzbekistan.

However, the document notes, even the available information, allow to draw a conclusion on the significant potential of the market for business tourism. our country. The biggest development of this branch has been in Tashkent and Samarkand, which is explained first, availability of the infrastructure necessary to carry out business tourism activities, d & # 39; 39 – accessibility of transport. It is also important that these regions have great financial opportunities to support and develop this type of tourism. Experts point out that the use of the potential of business tourism in Uzbekistan requires the creation of appropriate infrastructure, effective state support, reliable statistical information, training of staff professional and the formation of a favorable image of the country. as well as creating vital commercial infrastructure for cities. There are five-star hotels, modern business centers, advanced telecommunications, information services, special management within the State Committee for the promotion and management incentive tourism, creation and promotion of travel agencies – and business trips.

The paper proposes to Uzbekistan to use the experience of major foreign countries in this direction, and in particular the UAE and Germany. Today, the United Arab Emirates is like a big office: trade, business meetings and exhibitions in this country are constantly changing each other. Nothing in Dubai – more than 500 hotels and apartments, and the increase in the number of hotel rooms is 5 to 10% per year. New exhibition and business centers are opening in the region, about 30% of those visiting the country come to work here.

Businesspeople and free economic zones formed here – Jebel Ali Free Trade Zone and Dubai Free Zone. In the last year of the last millennium, the creation of a new free zone – Dubai Free Technology & Media Zone has begun. The purpose of the project is to attract new modern technologies in the field of communications, production of various video and audio equipment to the emirate.

Germany is considered the world capital of international exhibitions and fairs. Every year, on average, 150 international and interregional exhibitions and fairs take place in Germany, representing nearly two thirds of the total number of events organized in Europe. Among them, five out of the top ten in the world in terms of business turnover of the fairs.

Exhibitors and visitors, whose number reaches 10 million, annually spend about 10 billion euros for fairs, and the total economic effect their driving approaches 25 billion dollars. ; euro. Nearly 50% of exhibitors and about 20% of visitors come because of milestone. For the MICE events in the country there are more than 11 thousand places – hotels, congress centers, universities, airports, monasteries, castles, museums and theme parks. The exhibition and congress event provides about 250 thousand jobs.