Statistical Analyses of the Tourism Industry of Uzbekistan: Challenges in Collecting Information

To understand the endowment of the tourism industry to the economy of countries, analyses based upon tourism statistics should be done. Consequently, one of the key performance indicator of the tourism industry, i.e. tourist flow of inbound and outbound tourism of Uzbekistan is analyzed. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to estimate current changes in the tourism industry of Uzbekistan, to evaluate current challenges in collecting the statistical data of tourist flow of the sector and to recommend solutions accordingly.