Pecularities of tourism development in Namangan region

Namangan is a large city in the northern part of the Fergana Valley, 300 km from Tashkent, and the administrative centre of Namangan province. Namangan with a population of about 500,000 people ranks as the third largest city in Uzbekistan after Tashkent and Samarkand. The city's name translates from Uzbek as ‘salt mine.’ For the first time the city was mentioned in Babur’s memoirs (Baburnama); however, according to archaeological data, the first settlement sprang up on the site in the 1st century BC. Today Namangan has turned into a large modern city, one of Uzbekistan’s main industrial and cultural centres. This article addresses to the analysis of wide use of historical recreational resources in Namangan region.