The conference hall of Tashkent’s Uzbekistan
Hotel has hosted the meeting of the managing board of Uzbekturizm national
company, airports of the country and tourist enterprises of the country
Airlift
is quite popular with tourists. Undoubted advantages of aviation are speed, comfort and safety. As a
rule, most international flights arrive in the capital of the country that is
why it is better to get Urganch and Khiva, Nukus or Termiz in a comfortable
aircraft. That is the reason the international airports as air gates of our
country are the important part of the tourism industry. It is the airport where
tourists start their acquaintance with the country and it is the place the first
impressions get their forms.
On this and many other things the attendees of
the meeting talked to that was addressed on interactions between travel
enterprises and airports of the republic, representatives of the tourism and
aviation spheres. According to all participants, the improvement of service in
airports is the important factor in increasing passenger traffic. Issues on
increasing the service level and creating the effective system of servicing
meeting the requirements of passengers, in particular, tourists, were discussed
during the meeting.
The key attention was paid to the International Airport
“Tashkent”: they
discussed the possibilities of reducing the transit time of checkpoints in
airports and baggage claim. The attendees supposed to improve the conditions
for servicing disabled and retirees, to organize sightseeing tours for
passengers of transit flights, and to arrange the issue on arrival of tourist
buses to the ramp.
According
to the deputy head of the Tashkent airport on passenger traffic and tourism
Ravshan To’laganov, the management of the airport carries out an active work on
improving the service level: topical issues have been determined whose
successive solution gets fulfilled. Today, all registration desks function, a
new batch of luggage trolleys was procured, and trainings on advancing
hospitality skills are organized for airport workers.
The Uzbek
National Air Company consists of 11 airports. Six of them – in Tashkent, Samarqand,
Bukhoro, Urganch, Termiz, Navoi has the status of international airports.
The
cooperation of aviation and tourist sector gets developed steadily. The
foundation of the tourism department at the National Air Company, assistance in
organization of familiarization “mega info tours” for foreign tour operators
and journalists, implementation of joint advertising campaign on promoting the
tourist opportunities of Uzbekistan in the international tourism fairs FITUR in
Spain and ITB in Germany could be served as the example of it.
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