Kazakhstan took part in the KOPIST 2023 (Korean Partnership Initiative for Sustainable Tourism) forum held in South Korea, El.kz reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The event was organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea and the Korean Tourism Organization. In addition to Kazakhstan, the guests of the forum were representatives of such countries as the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Paraguay, Laos, etc. Our country was represented at this forum by the Chairman of the Tourism Industry Committee of the ISS RK Dastan Ryspekov. During the panel discussions, he spoke about the main changes in the structure of the tourist market and the preferences of vacationers.
Of particular interest to the guests of the event were the measures taken in Kazakhstan of state support for entrepreneurs in the field of tourism and the eQonaq information system.
"Our colleagues from other countries have become interested in Kazakhstan's experience of state support of business in the field of tourism. Their special attention was attracted by the measures of state support for entrepreneurs introduced by us recently, including subsidizing the costs of tour operators and reimbursing businesses for part of the costs of buying equipment and building tourist infrastructure. The attention of the guests and organizers of the forum was also attracted by the eQonaq system, and I spoke substantively about these mechanisms," said Dastan Ryspekov.
The Ministry noted that today in Kazakhstan there are 7 measures of state support for entrepreneurs in the field of tourism. These include: subsidizing the costs of tour operators for each foreign tourist, subsidizing the cost of air tickets in Kazakhstan for children, reimbursing entrepreneurs for part of the costs of buying ski equipment, vehicles (25%), construction of roadside service facilities, construction and reconstruction of tourist facilities (10%), , as well as subsidies for the maintenance of sanitary and hygienic units (83,300 tenge per month). eQonaq is an information system launched in 2020 to account for and analyze the tourist flow and migration control.