What Uzbekistan Tourism Committee does

The Uzbekistan Tourism Committee (O'zbekiston Respublikasi Turizm qo'mitasi) is a government state entity operating under the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It functions as the national regulatory and promotional authority for the tourism sector, responsible for licensing tour operators and travel agents, certifying tour guides, registering accommodation facilities and medical/health institutions, and maintaining consolidated registries of tourist route objects. The Committee is headquartered in Tashkent and operates through regional branches (Hududiy boshqarmalar) covering all regions of Uzbekistan.

The Committee's core offering is a portfolio of digital government services hosted on gov.uz and integrated with the national pm.gov.uz platform. This includes a unified registry of tourist route objects, a register of service certificates in special ID-card format, the official list of tour operators and travel agents (published as an Excel database), registers of accommodation facilities, certified tour guides, and medical/health institutions, plus a Virtual qabulxona (virtual reception) for electronic applications. Supporting channels include a trust phone hotline (+99871 200-00-88 / 1163), public surveys, press relations, and the Eaten.uz tourism statistics portal. The Committee also operates cross-cutting governance programs covering anti-corruption, youth policy, gender equality, international cooperation, and master planning.

The business model is non-commercial: government services are provided free of charge to citizens and enterprises, and the Committee is funded through the Uzbek state budget with no private shareholders, external investors, funding rounds, or commercial revenue stream. Primary "customers" in the regulatory sense are tour operators, travel agencies, tour guides, and accommodation facilities that must register or be licensed; secondary end-users are domestic and international tourists who access verified registry information.

Name

Uzbekistan Tourism Committee

Legal name

O'zbekiston Respublikasi Turizm qo'mitasi

Website

https://uzbektourism.uz

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Uzbekistan Tourism Committee is a state regulatory body under the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change that licenses tour operators, certifies guides, registers accommodation facilities, and maintains national tourism registries through its gov.uz digital platform and regional offices.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Tashkent

HQ country

Uzbekistan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Uzbekistan Tourism Committee is the national state regulatory authority that licenses and certifies tourism businesses and professionals in Uzbekistan, including tour operators, tour agents, tour guides, and accommodation facilities. It maintains official public registries of licensed tourism entities and provides free government services to citizens, including a virtual reception desk for inquiries.

Product overview

Uzbekistan Tourism Committee operates a portfolio of interconnected digital services and registries focused on tourism regulation and management. The core offering consists of multiple official registers (unified tourist route objects, accommodation facilities, tour guides, tour operators and travel agents, medical/health facilities) alongside state services including certification, licensing, and a virtual reception system. These products function as a regulatory platform enabling the government to track, certify, and manage tourism stakeholders while providing public access to verified information about tourism services in Uzbekistan.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tour Operator and Travel Agency Registration Official licensing and registration service for tour operators and tour agents operating in Uzbekistan, providing legal authorization to conduct tourism business and inclusion in the official national registry.
• Tour Guide Certification Official professional certification service for tour guides in Uzbekistan, qualifying them to legally conduct guided tours and listing them in the official national registry.
• Accommodation Facility Registry Official registry of accommodation facilities in Uzbekistan, providing an authoritative database of licensed lodging providers for tourists and the industry.
• Medical Facility Registry for Tourists Official registry of medical facilities serving tourists in Uzbekistan, providing verified healthcare access information for visitors.
• Virtual Reception Service for Citizens Free government service for citizens seeking tourism-related information and assistance, delivered through a virtual reception channel.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Visit Dubai (Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism): Municipal/state tourism authority running comprehensive destination marketing and industry licensing in a different geography; comparable as a digitally advanced national/regional tourism body.
• Turkish Tourism Promotion and Development Agency (TGA): State-affiliated tourism promotion body of Türkiye operating marketing, branding, and industry development programs; structurally analogous as a state-backed tourism promotion and development agency.

Broad incumbents

• Tourism Authority of Thailand: Long-established national tourism authority that combines destination promotion with industry regulation on a much larger scale; serves as a benchmark for the upper-bound institutional model a national committee could evolve into.
• Saudi Tourism Authority: National tourism authority overseeing destination promotion and ecosystem development; comparable as a state-led tourism marketing and regulatory body, though operating with substantially larger budgets and scale.
• Goa Tourism Development Corporation: Government-run tourism body managing licensing, accommodation registration, and destination promotion at sub-national level; comparable on the regulatory-licensing and registry dimensions.
• Egyptian Tourism Promotion Authority: State tourism authority combining heritage-route promotion with industry regulation; shares the dual mandate of cultural-heritage destination marketing and operator licensing.

Direct peers

• Azerbaijan Tourism Board: National tourism authority of Azerbaijan - a state-driven destination marketing and regulation organization along the historic Silk Road, directly comparable in mandate and stage of digital development.
• Kazakhstan Tourism (Kazakhstan Tourism National Company): State-backed national tourism promotion body of Kazakhstan, the most geographically and structurally comparable peer for a Central Asian government tourism regulator developing digital tourism infrastructure.

Others

• UNWTO (World Tourism Organization): UN specialized agency for tourism policy and statistics; not a regulator but a comparable international body whose frameworks (statistics, sustainability, digital transformation) shape how national tourism committees operate and report.
• Trip.com Group (Ctrip): Major OTA platform - relevant counterpart rather than a competitor; the Committee's registries ultimately feed into OTAs and tour platforms like this one, making them an integration counterpart in Uzbekistan's tourism ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/uzbekistan-tourism-committee

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