Silkroad International University of Tourism

Web: https://univ-silkroad.uz/en

Effective use of available resources and opportunities of the wealth of natural, cultural and historical heritage of Uzbekistan, introduction of innovative ideas and technologies, active attraction of investments serves to create convenient economic, as well as organizational and legal conditions for tourism development. Given the gradual transformation of tourism into a strategic sector of the country's economy, there is an objective need to prepare highly qualified and competitive personnel in the world market for the tourism industry, capable of creating a favourable image of the country as an attractive centre for tourism on the Great Silk Road, developing the service industry and fully attracting the potential of the regions to tourism.

The initiative to open a higher education institution in the tourism industry, proposed at the Summit of Eight, held in Qingdao, at a meeting of heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. And by the decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan № 3815 of June 28, 2018 the first state university with international status was organized.