2021-02-01 14:36:10 GMT2021-02-01 22:36:10(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
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TASHKENT, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) Uzbekistan plans to open its largest gold-mining fields to foreign tourists, in a bid to develop geo-tourism in the resource-rich Central Asian nation.
The Uzbek State Committee for Tourism Development said Monday it is currently studying the possibility of turning the country s largest Amantaytau and Daugiztau gold deposits, in the central Kyzylkum Desert, into tourist attractions, where foreign visitors can watch the process of gold extraction and blasting operations in the mines.
Geo-tourism has been gaining popularity in recent years for the global tourism industry, and Uzbekistan has huge geological and mineralogical advantages in this sector, it said.