The Mongolian government declared 2023 and 2024 the Years of Visiting Mongolia to promote the country’s pandemic-hit tourism sector.

Meanwhile, the government launched an online platform for promoting Mongolia internationally. The website www.mongoliatravel.guide and the application “Visit Mongolia” were launched in test mode.

The www.mongoliatravel.guide website and “Visit Mongolia” travel app will provide information about the history, culture, art, customs, food and nature of Mongolia in Mongolian, English, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Korean languages, schedule of tourist activities and other information.

In addition, every foreign tourist who has obtained an e-visa to come to Mongolia will soon receive a greeting letter from the prime minister of Mongolia titled “Welcome to Mongolia.

Mongolia has set a goal of welcoming 1 million foreign tourists and earning 1 billion U.S. dollars from tourism in 2024.

The country attracted a total of 42,060 foreign tourists in the first five months of this year, up 391.7 percent from the same period last year, as a result of re-opening its borders to foreign tourists in February.