Mongolia to participate in ITB Berlin as partner

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Mongolia is to take part for the first time in the ITB Berlin international tourism exhibition in 2015 as an official partner, the Prime Minister N.Altankhuyag announced at a meeting of tourism held Wednesday in the State House. This meeting brought together delegates of the tourism sector under a motto “Mongolia Nomadic by Nature”. Relevant information on the meeting has been published in English on the mongolia.travel website, which is connected with the itb-berlin.com website. The Premier said administrations of the city, its districts, aimags, soums as well as entities are now able to post their tourism-related presentations in the website. The cabinet plans to realize works to augment the visa-free countries for Mongolians and the number of aviation companies, the Premier noted, and emphasized an importance of people’s role in bringing the national tourism sector into a new level. Statistics show about 300 thousand tourists visit Mongolia every year, and this number can go up constantly after participating in the ITB Berlin exhibition, Altankhuyag said. He added that Mongolia is projected to receive 600 thousand tourists in 2015, 800 thousand—in 2016 and one million—in 2017. The ITB Berlin is considered as the world's largest tourism trade fair. The companies represented at the fair include hotels, tourist boards, tour operators, system providers, airlines and car rental companies. The thematically ordered market segments help visitors and exhibitors to quickly find their way through the wide product range of ITB Berlin: Book World, Business Travel Days, Cruises, Cultural Tourism, Economy Accommodation, eTravel World, Adventure & Responsible Tourism, Gay & Lesbian Travel, ITB Mobile Travel Services, Training and Employment (CareerCenter), Travel Technology, Trends & Events, Wellness, Youth Travel.