On July 17 of this year participants of the International Conference “Central and South Asia: Regional Interconnectedness. Challenges and Opportunities”, held on the initiative of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev on July 15-16 in Tashkent, during an official visit to Samarkand visited the “Silk Road” International University of Tourism.

    The guests visited the university building, which has the status of a “smart campus”, equipped according to the standards of the most prestigious higher educational institutions in the world. Special attention was paid to the educational and production complex, which includes hotel rooms, a bar-restaurant, a conference hall for 250 people equipped with advanced technologies, a university canteen made in the style of a cafeteria, a universal sports hall, a swimming pool, as well as an ultramodern Library decorated in a modern design and acting as a full-fledged high-tech center of tourist knowledge.

   During the visit, the guests met with the teaching staff of the university, where teachers and students demonstrated practical developments of creating projects in the field of tourism.