Representatives of the “Silk Road” International University of Tourism recently held online talks with representatives of the UNWTO Academy and the Association of European tourism universities. The foreign side was represented by the Director of the UNWTO Academy O.Valdes, Deputy Director of the UNWTO Regional office for Europe P.Yaneh and UNWTO Academy staff L. Garner and S. Figuras.

The First Vice-rector prof. Eltazarov Zh. and the acting head of the Department for the development of international activities A. Kamilov said: "During the talks with UNWTO representatives, we discussed a lot of issues related to the resumption of work within the framework of the joint road map drawn up in 2018. The priority was to discuss the possibility of academic exchange of teachers and students between "Silk Road" IUT and leading European universities.

It was also noted that in order to provide the faculty and students of the University with open access to modern educational and methodological literature, it is planned to connect the University to the international electronic library UNWTO "E-library".

Another important part of the negotiations was the preparation of documents for obtaining the UNWTO TEDQual certification. At the same time, work continues to attract foreign specialists and experts to the training process, as well as establishing cooperation with such international organizations as TICA, DAAD, KOICA, Erasmus+, JICA, AHLEI, UNESCO».