A monthly report by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) shows that the number of tourists in Mongolia fell to 333,000 or by 12.1 percent compared to last year.

Apparently July and August are the high period in the tourist season in Mongolia. According to the report tourists from China fell by 23.5 percent in the first nine months of 2013.

The report showed that 48.3 percent of foreigners who were allowed to enter Mongolia were Chinese visitors, while 14.1 percent were from Russia, 9.8 percent from South Korea, 4 percent from Japan and 3.5 percent from USA. However, even though the total number of tourists who visited Mongolia declined, the number of visitors from Turkey increased. 

There are also rising numbers of visitors from India, Kazakhstan and South Korea. For the first nine months of this year 405.5 thousand foreigners were allowed to enter Mongolia. From these 82.1 percent out of them visited Mongolia on tourism while 84 percent of 1.2 million visitors in transit were on private purposes.

A report by the General Authority for Border Protection, a government regulatory agency pointed out that one of every three foreign visitors or 69.4 percent were from East Asia and Pacific countries and 24.3 percent from Europe. Out of almost 74 percent or 300,000 of all foreign visitors who were allowed to enter Mongolia were male.

The figure that a total of 3.2 million foreign visitors entered Mongolia has declined by 5.1 percent compared to the same period of last year.