DUSHANBE, 03.01.2019. (NIAT Khovar) – International daily newspaper Financial Times (FT) has put Tajikistan on its List of World’s Must-Visit Places for 2019. Tajikistan has earned a spot in the top 6 places to go to in 2019.

Alongside the Tajikistan, eight nations, including Cambodia, Faroe Islands, Rwanda, Oman, Eritrea, Belize and Italy, have been put on the list.

The authors of the material advised to visit the northern part of Tajikistan through neighboring Uzbekistan. They, in particular, says, “Uzbekistan, tipped in the 2017 equivalent of this article, has become increasingly accessible, with a new e-visa system, more flights from Europe to Tashkent, and high-speed rail links from Tashkent on to Samarqand and Bukhara.  Neighboring Tajikistan remains much more off the beaten track, but earlier last year the border was opened between Samarkand and Panjakent, in the north-western corner of Tajikistan.”

“You could be gazing at the glittering Timurid domes of Samarkand in the morning and wandering through a remote Yagnob village in the spectacular Fann Mountains by tea time,” Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent notes.  

It was also noted that the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon noted in his annual state-of-the-nation address to parliament on December 26 that visitor numbers doubled last year, compared to 2017, and pledged to develop the country’s infrastructure to create a conducive environment for tourism.

Recall, the President of Tajikisran Emomali Rahmon on January 2, 2019 signed Executive Order on holding the Years of 2019-2021 as the «Period of the Rural Development, Tourism, and Folk Crafts». The Executive Office of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan has been instructed to develop within a month and submit for approval a plan of the period’s major events.