Most tourists come to Mongolia during the warmer months like summer and autumn while we accept 23 percent of foreign tourists in winter time. Because Mongolia has an extreme weather and one of the coldest winters in the world. Although there are some events during winter time like snow festival, ice festival and eagle festival, the number of tourists who come to Mongolia decreases dramatically from October.

Following events were held in 2024 during winter months:

• “Winterland 2024 – Frost of Tamir”. It was a winter travel program held in Arkhangai province and included many small events. The event will be held again this year. Last year, more than 30,000 tourists visited and were interested.
• “Mongolian camel festival”
• “Festival of a thousand camels”
• “Blue pearl” ice festival
• “Festival of reindeer and snow”
• “Khuvsgul trophy” international competition of ice fishing
• Ice fishing world cup

Although tourists have interest in these events, it lasts only few days and has the disadvantage of being in a remote area.

Each tourists arriving by plane spends between 1,593 USD and 2,500 USD on their trip while tourists from border area spends 600 USD. More than 650 thousand tourists came to Mongolia in 2023 and generated 1 billion USD in revenue. Number of the tourists were a double increase from 2022. As of 2024, 800103 tourists have came to Mongolia.

The top 10 countries by number of tourists visiting in 2024 are as follows:

• China – 217712
• Russia – 213231
• South Korea – 193019
• Japan – 25643
• Kazakhstan – 24237
• US – 16368
• Taiwan – 12334
• Germany – 12134
• Turkey – 7755
• France – 6777