OREANDA-NEWS. July 10, 2013. IBC Executive Director Aktilek Tungatarov delivered a presentation at the conference “EU – Kyrgyzstan Cooperation Day.” He spoke about the results of EU-funded project “Strengthening tourism business intermediary organizations for sustainable economic development in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia,” implemented by IBC in 2011-2012 in cooperation with European Center for Ecological and Agricultural Tourism.

The goal of EU – Kyrgyzstan Cooperation Day was to review programs and projects funded by EU.

Some of the results of the project “Strengthening tourism business intermediary organizations for sustainable economic development in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia”:

Establishment of the Public Fund “Tourism Promotion and Development Board of Kyrgyzstan”
Establishment of Central Asian Tourism Association (CATA)

Activities on destination marketing: IBC worked closely with the Interdepartmental Commission on Tourism, Ministry of Economy and Ministry of Culture and Tourism in order to develop the official tourism logo and slogan. To this end by the decree of the Ministry of Economy a commission consisting of representatives of respective state agencies, NGO and business associations voted on a logo and a slogan among all more than 90 logos submitted in the course of two competitions. The accepted logo and slogan were further passed on to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The project team facilitated and financed the given activity. Moreover, an official tourism website was created and passed on to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.