On November 23 of this year, a familiarization with university was organized at university, with the participation of 11th grade students of the 72nd secondary school of Samarkand. During the meeting there was a detailed acquaintance with the conditions and opportunities created at university for students and youth.

On November 24 of the current year on the initiative of the head of the department of work with youth and organization of events N.Abduvakhidova and the President of “Students Parliament” Emir Zeytullaev, tutor G.Khusainova with the participation of first year students and youth held an event “Fashion day” with the purpose of wide propaganda of national traditions, national and modern costumes of our people. Firstly, first year students of the first year divided into teams presented national and modern clothes at the event. Our girls demonstrated clothes made of national fabrics of our people - adras, satin, bekasam, and our boys - modern clothes, which are traditional today. Each performance was evaluated by the judges and at the end the winners were announced.

According to the results, “Mantour-123” team got the 3rd place, “Mantour-223” team got the 2nd place and “Tour-123-223” team got the first place. At the awarding ceremony the first vice-rector of our university J.Eltazarov made a speech, he expressed his appreciation to the organizers and awarded the winners. Songs were performed at the event.

On December 4, 2023, a training seminar on the topic “Application of Experimental Design and Big Data in Tourism Research” will be held at “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage to improve the research capacity of professors and researchers in their research activities. Prof. Hanyun (Neil) Li will participate in the training seminar with his lecture.

For information: Prof. Hengyun (Neil) Lee is Associate Professor Hengyun (Neil) Li of the Department of Hotel and Tourism Management, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

We invite all lecturers and academic researchers to participate in this seminar.

Seminar venue: university building, lecture hall 229.

Seminar time: December 4, 2023 14:00 p.m.

On December 7, 2023, at 13.00-15.00 (Tashkent time), a conference will be held on the topic “Prospects for the regional expansion of transnational tourism within the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization”. The meeting will be organized in offline format in conference halls of Moscow, Samarkand and Beijing. In connection with the organization of the conference in lecture hall 230 of our university in Samarkand, we invite to participate relevant researchers, professors and teachers, doctoral students and students of the university.

Conference agenda is attached
Conference agenda

On November 22 of this year, Dilrabo Mardonova, a teacher of the “Tourism Management” department of our university, together with the students of 4th year students Tour group 120, took a practical lesson on “Management of consumer services in hospitality” to the hotel “Mövenpick” in Samarkand. together with the students, they received detailed information about the types of services provided in the hotel, the price difference depending on the number and type of rooms, the main and additional services provided. The practice further strengthened the theoretical knowledge of the student youth and, having close acquaintance with the services provided in the hotel, formed practical skills.

On November 22 of this year the graduation ceremony of 48 students who graduated Master’s degree of our university held. At the ceremony, the first vice-rector of our university, Prof. J.Eltazarov and J.Hoffman spoke about the role of our university in training a qualified specialist in the field of tourism today. Also at the event master’s graduates and their parents told about the opportunities created by our state and expressed gratitude to their teachers. After that, the main part of the event took place - awarding diplomas to the graduates.

In order to ensure the implementation of the decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on turning the intellectual game “Zakovat” into a mass-educational movement among the population and other measures for the development of intellectual games, student-youth competitions are held at our university. On November 21 of this year the 1st League of Samarkand club “Zakovat” was held among educated and resourceful students of our university. 6 teams of students competed with each other in the knowledge contest.