As you know, the 25th session of the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization held in Samarkand on October 16-20 of this year. Students of our university participated in this prestigious event as volunteers. Yesterday, the Embassy of Kuwait in Uzbekistan sent an appreciation letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan to our student-volunteer Erkinov Rustam, who guided the delegation of Kuwait.

The staff of our university will also be pleased to recognize the productive work of this student at the prestigious event. 

The letter is attached
Аn appreciation letter

On November 25, 2023, at 11:00, in the conference hall of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage within the meeting of Scientific Council DSc.33/01.02.2022.I.145.01 which grants scientific degrees in economic sciences, the defense of dissertation work on the topic “Improving the organizational and economic mechanisms for the development of business tourism in the regions (on the example of the Samarkand region)” of Samiev Siroj Saitovich on specialty 08.00.17 “Tourism and hotel activities”, an independent researcher of Samarkand Institute of Economics and Service for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

On November 3 of this year, a group of students of our university organized a trip to the “School of Riders” at the Samarkand Regional Directorate of the National Guard. On the same day, servicemen and students competed with each other in equestrian sport. This showed the skill of the participants and their ability to control a horse.

University students also took an honorable place in equestrian sport.

On November 6 of the current year, the department of work with youth and organization of events and tutors organized a preventive event for first and second year students on the theme “Increasing the level of legal knowledge of students and prevention of committing offenses and crimes by them” at “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage.

Nargiza Abduvakhidova, head of the department of work with youth and organization of events, speaking at the event, told about offenses and crimes committed by some students of youth today, despite the fact that all conditions have been created for students' education, noting that there is insufficient propaganda work in this direction in the field, there is a low level of legal literacy.

It is not a secret that today in our country some students studying at the university make such negative situations as illegal invasion, theft, misappropriation of other people’s property.

The conducted propaganda event gave a complete idea about various offenses and crimes committed by students, about the types of punishments applied for non-compliance with traffic rules. It was also told about building mutual respect, self-esteem, sense of dignity, religion among students and youth and the youth were called for awareness.

On November 6 of this year, the Youth Council started the project “Book Exchange 2023”, which aims to widely promote reading among students of “Silk Road” International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage, and to tell their peers about the reality of books that young people read.

The aim of this project is to strengthen their academic and intellectual knowledge by telling their peers about the books that young people read. In addition, the discussion of books was conducted in a foreign language and an attempt was made to develop in young people the art of public speaking. Young people exchanged books they had read with their peers and shared their thoughts about the book.

On November 6 of this year, a group of famous professors of Turkey visited our university. The First Vice-Rector of the university, Professor J.Eltazarov met and welcomed the guests who visited the ancient and eternally young Samarkand.  As you know, today our university has joint cooperation with a number of prestigious universities of the world, in particular with Turkey, in such areas as science, academic student exchange. During the dialogue there were discussed such issues as further improvement of these cooperative ties, popularization of Turkey’s experience in training specialists in the field of tourism.