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In Uzbekistan there was held the Silk Road Cities Forum. The event was initiated by United Nations Development Programme.
It was not by accident that Uzbekistan was nominated as the Forum's venue: for centuries Silk Road region have been one of the most brisk centres of economic activities and the main branches of the Great Silk Road crossed the territory of modern Uzbekistan. Trade routes of Central Asia and China connected East and West and promoted the development and spread of science, new technologies, and cultural exchange. In the principal Silk Road cities there were constructed architectural monuments, flourished arts and crafts.
The Silk Road heritage includes not only material wealth, but also the great humanistic traditions on strengthening peace and good-neighbourliness, mutually beneficial cooperation, integration of countries and peoples. Today these noble traditions are maintained by modern states of Central Asia – independent Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, China and other countries of the Silk Road region.
Besides issues relating to integration of the region countries' efforts aimed at development of tourist links on the Silk Road, the Forum participants also discussed the challenges of attracting investments to the countries of the region for improvement of urban and transport infrastructure both in the historical centres and between them, as well as the problems of environment, maintaining and further extending the cultural contacts.
Doctor Harsh Varma, Chief Technical Cooperation UNWTO, took active part in the work of the Forum. It should be noted that from 1993 in cooperation with tourist administrations of the countries-members of UNWTO, this organization has been realizing the unique international project "Tourism on the Silk Road". Under this project in 1994 there was adopted the historic "Samarkand Declaration on the Silk Road tourism", and since 2004 in Samarkand Regional Office of UNWTO has been implementing the project.
It is expected that new form of cooperation between the Silk Road countries will become an additional stimulus for broader and multilateral interaction of the region's states, and will serve as a real manifestation of the revival of trade, economic and cultural exchange on this ancient thoroughfare.
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- Ordering and booking of hotel (group and individual orders).
- Meeting at the airport and accompaning in hotel.
- Transportation services.
- Air tickets booking.
- Group and individual excursion programs in the cities of Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva and all other cities of Uzbekistan.
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