From ancient trade to modern travel: Silk Road tourism surges across Eurasia

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From ancient trade to modern travel: Silk Road tourism surges across Eurasia  The 30th Tashkent International Tourism Fair highlights Silk Road tourism growth, driven by flights, multi-country routes, local crafts, and AI planning tools.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/12/01/from-ancient-trade-to-modern-travel-silk-road-tourism-surges-across-eurasia  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Tourism across the countries of the ancient Silk Road is quietly accelerating.

00:06The numbers are now hard to ignore.

00:08Uzbekistan alone has jumped from just over 2 million foreign arrivals in 2017

00:13to more than 10 million last year, according to data provided by the country's tourism committee.

00:19And this momentum is exactly what's shaping discussions at the 30th Tashkent International Tourism Fair,

00:25bringing together tourism professionals from more than 40 countries.

00:29It's the first time during the exhibition a week of tourism,

00:33which combines around itself forums, for example, the European Union and Central Asia,

00:39the Forum of Islamic Organization, the Transport and Media Forum,

00:44and many, many other platforms that connect not only to the tourists of the tourism sector,

00:50but also to the farmers.

00:52Connectivity is driving much of that growth.

00:55Links between Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan now operate daily,

00:58with extra twice weekly flights between Samarkand and Baku.

01:02For the last year Azerbaijan has visited more than 50 thousand tourists from Uzbekistan.

01:08The number of tourists has increased to more than 35%.

01:12The national PR agencies of Uzbekistan and the Azerbaijan Bureau of Tourism,

01:16we are moving together tours on the attractions of the Silk Road.

01:21The cities, mountains, food, education and tech are all being reviewed as possible entry points.

01:27A region over the Silk Road is looking for new ways to attract travelers.

01:31The Korean tours, the pots, the pots, the pots, the pots, the pots, the pins, the cups,

01:35the cups, the pots and the pots are all being reviewed as possible.

01:40So for urban tourist housing, that also the pins of the tourism,

01:41the traditional tourist tourist, the tourist tourist tourism and the rural tourist tourist

01:43are all becoming more and less.

01:45The former Balkanist- increments that have to be joined the places of the aviation congestion

01:47and we are able to have to turn the locations of the opus

01:49and the tourism financing.

01:52The public tourism operation has been written according to the other location,

01:53so we can provide to some of our offshore businesses to reach our communities to go towards.

01:57Craft tourism is adding authenticity.

01:59Unique craft products are becoming part of the travel identity of the corridor itself.

02:03I've been working for 20 years with trees.

02:07We've been participating in big festivals in Shanghai in the 1960s.

02:12In this year, there was a festival in Japan.

02:14We're mostly buyers of European people.

02:17They're interested in the trees.

02:19New technologies and use of artificial intelligence now connect planning,

02:23making the beginning of travel faster and more informed.

02:35The focus here at Tashkent International Tourism Fair 2025 is clear.

02:40To make the region more accessible and more attractive for international travelers,

02:45participants are discussing shared tourism routes and coordinated global promotion,

02:49while tourism organizations and artisan stands present Central Asia's cultural and economic potential.

02:56Delbar Primv, Euronews, Tashkent.

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