From May 25 to May 29, 2025, a working group led by the First Deputy Director of the Agency on Statistics under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Aso Nurullo Asvat, including representatives from the Executive Office of the President, state bodies in the fields of statistics, tourism, consular services, border troops, the Agency for Innovation and Digital Economy, and the Research Institute of Tourism, is on a working visit to the city of Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan. The purpose of the visit is to study the organization of tourism statistics, the practice of recording the entry and exit of foreign nationals, and the development of key indicators for monitoring the Tourism Development Strategy of the Republic of Tajikistan for 2023–2026.
As part of the working program, an exchange of experience was organized with relevant authorities of the Republic of Uzbekistan on forming indicators for tourism development trends, recording the number of visits by foreign tourists, domestic tourism, satellite tourism accounts within the system of national accounts, the share of tourism in GDP, investments in the tourism sector, and other aspects of statistical accounting in this field. During meetings and consultations, the mechanisms currently in place, the practice of collecting tourism statistics in the Republic of Tajikistan, and methods for conducting sample statistical surveys in the tourism sector were discussed.
As a result of these discussions, priority areas, methods, and methodologies for improving tourism statistics were identified, as well as an action plan for enhancing the registration of foreign tourist arrivals and citizen departures by travel purpose categories, the implementation and frequency of tourism-related statistical surveys, and other key aspects of tourism statistics.
