Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Continue to Popularize Rail Tourism
Kazakhstan’s nationwide railway firm, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), and Oʻzbekiston temir yoʻllari, often known as Uzbekistan Railways, organized this 12 months’s second Keruen Express practice tour from May 1 to 6.
More than 130 passengers traveled alongside the Almaty-Turkestan-Samarkand-Tashkent-Almaty route.
Over 5 days, members visited main architectural and historic websites in each nations, together with the Khoja Ahmed Yasawi Mausoleum in Turkestan, the Gur-e-Amir mausoleum and the Registan in Samarkand, and the Hazrati Imam Complex in Tashkent.
The Keruen Express promotes rail tourism and the area’s historic heritage whereas strengthening cultural ties between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Rail tourism is gaining traction in Central Asia. As beforehand reported by The Times of Central AsiaKTZ expanded its standard Jibek Joly (Silk Road) vacationer practice route to embrace Tajikistan. The up to date route now reaches the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, extending the tour past Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
The train-tour tasks are a part of a regional push to promote Central Asia as a unified vacationer vacation spot. Regional leaders have advocated for a shared visa-free regime for overseas guests, comparable to Europe’s Schengen Area, to encourage cross-border journey and enhance worldwide tourism.
Speaking on the 59th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank in Samarkand on May 4, Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev proposed making a Central Asia Tourism Ring as a unified tourism house connecting the nations of the area. Mirziyoyev referred to as on neighboring nations, the ADB, and different companions to type a portfolio of tourism improvement tasks and collectively finance them.
Mirziyoyev additionally highlighted Central Asia’s tourism potential, noting that amid world instability, tens of millions of vacationers are looking for secure locations, and the area has vital alternatives in pilgrimage, cultural, gastronomic, ethnographic, excessive, and medical tourism.