The number of flights with countries with high potential for pilgrimage tourism will be increased

The President emphasized the need to fully use the potential of our country's pilgrimage tourism. The Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Heritage has been given the task of increasing flights from Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Arab countries with high pilgrimage tourism potential to Samarkand, Bukhara and Tashkent.

The Ministry of Finance was instructed to allocate 40 billion soums to the local budget to improve the infrastructure of pilgrimage tourism facilities in Bukhara.

Officials were instructed to approve the program of attracting at least 1 million tourists a year, fully utilizing the potential of more than 1,200 places of pilgrimage in our country.

Taking into account the different denominations, sects, and approaches of visiting tourists, it was shown that what kind of food to offer to the representatives of which religion or sect, how to equip hotels and places of worship cannot be done without scientific approaches.

It was said that there is a lack of experts and guides who can provide information about holy places, saints and pirs.

In this regard, the Islamic Academy, the University of "Silk Road" was tasked with developing scientifically based approaches for countries with a large flow of pilgrimage tourism.