OREANDA-NEWS. January 28, 2014. This year's first International Tourism Exhibition FITUR - International Tourism Fair in Spain was opened in the Spanish capital.

Participation in the exhibition and equipped area is provided by the Tourism Industry Committee of the Industry and New Technologies Ministry of Kazakhstan. Tourism opportunities of country are presented by the delegations of Astana, Almaty cities, and Almaty, Zhambyl, Mangystau and South Kazakhstan regions in the framework of fair.

In his speech at the opening of Kazakhstan stand, the Chairman of the Tourism Industry Committee of the Industry and New Technologies Ministry of Kazakhstan Marat Igaliyev noted that "The President has defined objectives of implementing the Strategy – 2050 in his Address and Kazakhstan plans to expand advertising campaign of its tourism capabilities. It is necessary to increase the competitiveness of our tourist market for inbound tourism. The work in this direction is quite serious, especially at the legislative level".

The Kazakhstan pavilion’s opening was attended by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to the Kingdom of Spain and the Resident Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan under the World Tourism Organization Bakyt Dyussenbayev, representatives of the World Tourism Organization, tour operators, representatives of the European media.

Visitors of FITUR in Madrid will be able to acquaint themselves with the exposition of Kazakhstan located in the hall of the Exhibition Center IFEMA within five days (January 22-26, 2014). Kazakhstan showed EXPO-2017 for visitors on the first day. European and Asian tour operators and representatives of the hotel business expressed interest in tourism opportunities in Kazakhstan.