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Kazakhstan wants to make rocket launches from Baikonur cosmodrome a tourist attraction.

• 28 мая 2013, 17:59

Three tour buses will be purchased in 2013 and will start cruising Almaty city right away: official.

• 27 мая 2013, 17:34

A Chinese tourist who defaced an ancient Egyptian monument was hunted down by Internet users who prompted his parents to apologise.

• 27 мая 2013, 11:44

A concept for development of tourism in Kazakhstan until 2020 has been presented.

• 23 апреля 2013, 16:58

Five people died, including a seven-month-old baby and a Belgian woman, and 53 were injured when a Thai tour bus plummeted off a hillside in northern Thailand after its brakes failed.

• 08 апреля 2013, 15:37

Chinese travellers are the world's biggest tourism spenders, splashing out a record $102 billion (78 billion euros) on trips abroad in 2012.

• 05 апреля 2013, 18:08

The United Arab Emirates are the most popular destination for Kazakhstan tourists in the fall-winter period of 2012-2013.

• 02 апреля 2013, 16:14

The number of foreign women tourists visiting India has dropped by 35 percent in the past three months following a spate of sex attacks that have made global headlines.

• 02 апреля 2013, 10:01

Mass muggings and attacks on Chinese tourists in Paris have spawned alarm and warnings of a decline in the number of free-spending visitors from the Asian giant who swarm to France.

• 30 марта 2013, 12:15

It is expected that the total number of tourists from Kazakhstan travelling to Turkey will triple in the next three years.

• 23 марта 2013, 15:25

A Chinese city is searching for a foreign traveller to become a "modern Marco Polo", with a 40,000 euro ($52,000) salary on offer to the winner.

• 14 марта 2013, 10:25

Smuggling the world's largest land animal across an international border sounds like a mammoth undertaking, but activists say that does not stop traffickers supplying Asian elephants to Thai tourist attractions.

• 02 марта 2013, 15:35

Big attention of the society makes this project more transparent. We want the community to take part: Almaty Akim.

• 25 февраля 2013, 15:22

Astana will introduce double-decker sightseeing buses for tourists.

• 20 февраля 2013, 16:47

522.9 thousand tourists visited Astana last year, including 117.5 thousand people from abroad and 405.4 thousand of people from other regions of the country.

• 14 января 2013, 14:57

Kazakhstan will receive some land in the forest in Kemer district of Antalya province in Turkey.

• 26 декабря 2012, 17:29

Thousands of Palestinians and tourists were flocking to the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday to mark Christmas at the site where many believe Jesus Christ was born.

• 25 декабря 2012, 11:50

UNESCO poll shows that 70% of tourists don’t need any facilities and would prefer a camping ground to a hotel.

• 11 декабря 2012, 15:49

China will allow transit passengers from 45 countries including the US, Canada and all members of the EU to spend up to 72 hours in Beijing without a visa from next month.

• 07 декабря 2012, 10:04

Participants of the pageant will visit all main tourist attractions of the country prior to the final show of the contest.

• 12 ноября 2012, 11:55