Airports development program to be drawn up in Kazakhstan

20 June, 2014 12:49

Tourism Industry Committee of the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of Kazakhstan jointly with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) plan to develop a program for the development of airports in Kazakhstan, the ministry's press service said.

This decision was made on June 19 at a working meeting of Chairman of Tourism Industry Committee Marat Igaliyev with IATA Country Manager for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan Jordan Karmalakov.

As part of the adopted concept of development of tourist industry in Kazakhstan until 2020 the sides discussed issues of cooperation in the implementation of promising tourism projects that would receive significant competitive advantage.

IATA expressed interest in contributing to the regulation of charter programs of Kazakhstan air carriers. In particular, the association presented the product called MarketIS, the report on the traffic of passengers, which aims to determine the most popular passenger routes. In addition, the association represented the system to verify the authenticity of visa requirements called TIMATIC.

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