Restoration of Population Health as a Factor in the Socio-Economic Stability of the State

The paper justifies the need to develop a new direction of tourism in Uzbekistan – medical (health) tourism. The national tourism’s SWOT-analysis was carried out and its outcomes enabled to make recommendations for the restoration of national tourism in the postCOVID period based on the UN report “COVID-19 and the transformation of tourism”. In order to increase competitiveness some factors are to be adjusted.