The Uzbek side briefed the US side on rich historic and cultural heritage, reforms and developments in tourism sector, measures adopted to improve tourism infrastructure.

Gary Furlong underlined that the citizens of the US and Canada are not well informed on tourism opportunities in Uzbekistan. He said he is ready to promote tourism product of Uzbekistan in the market of America in cooperation with Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan and Uzbektourism.

He said that Uzbekistan could significantly increase number of tourists from the United States via participation of large tourism companies of Uzbekistan at tourism conference in America, exchange students of tourism universities, conduct joint sport events.

In his turn, Farrukh Rizaev informed the guest on the state programme “Mega-info-tur”, within which the US tourism companies and mass media can visit Uzbekistan. The programme attracted attention of the US side, Uzbektourism said.

Rizaev informed the US side about Tashkent Tourism Fair and Hosted Buyers programme, which will start its work for the first time this year within the exhibition. The US companies were invited to participate in these events.

Furlong said that Mega-info-tur and Hosted Buyers can serve as good start for long-term cooperation and added that he will prepare a group from leading US tourism firms and send his proposals via diplomatic channels.