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Lida Travel is a professional and a reliable
travel agency that has specialized in travel to and from Mongolia for nearly
eight years. Through experience we know how to book the most inexpensive tickets
to and from Ulaanbaatar with the most direct routing possible.
Most government officials of the Mongolian
embassy, adventurous tourists looking to discover one of the world's last
frontiers, and professional business people eager to tap into Mongolia's growing
free market rely on us. |
Tourism
Mongolia, with her unique
eco-system, vast territory, virgin lands, an rare animals, have long been a
tourist attraction. Tourism is a relatively new sector that has been developing
rapidly at recent. According to incomplete sources, revenue from tourist
companies and organizations peaked at 8.6 billion tugriks in 1990 realizing net
profit of 1.5 billion tugriks. To promote Mongolia as a attractive tourism
destination an provide information on tourism opportunities and resources of the
country, Mongolian companies and firms actively participate in international
tourism fairs and exhibitions, organized in Utrecht, Holland, London, England
and Irkutsk, Russian Federation. Projects and programs such as, the Silk Road,
Tea Road, aimed at identifying new tourism routes and establishment of a
tourist network, are being considered. Within the Silk Road program historic
routes of the Silk Road have been identified together with preparation of the
introduction to historical and cultural sites, nature zones along the "Silk
Road" and maps for selected areas. Number of tourists coming to Mongolia
amounted to 42.4 thousand in 1998, In recent years, specific types of tourism,
such as travel by horse, camel, water and on foot, have been especially popular.
While travel by camel has promising prospectivies in Gobi region, travel by
horse or by horse and on foot, may be organized more frequently in Kharkhorin,
Arkhangai, Khuvsgul, Bulgan, Khovd and Uvs aimags. Tourism marketing policy is a
priority task for travel companies, which includes programs and routes
attractive to tourists. People from Asia and Europe account for 93 percent of
the total number of tourists coming to Mongolia and the rest are tourists from
America, Africa, Arab countries and Australia. The largest portion of tourists
come from China (40 percent), Japan (13 percent), and Russian Federation (10
percent).
E-mail:
lidatravel@comcast.net
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