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Keywords: Uzbekistan, religious tourism, visiting tourism, tourist routes, holy shrines and 
monuments, small pilgrimage, small hajj, Islamic religion, Pilgrim visa. 
 
Introduction: 
Today, large-scale reforms are carried out in all spheres of public life in Uzbekistan, and 
the main goal of these reforms is an indicator of further development of the country’s economy 
and improvement of the welfare of our people. Tourism is important in the economic development 
and growth of Uzbekistan, and in the following years, along with other spheres of Tourism, great 
attention is paid to the development of pilgrimage tourism in our country.
At present, one of the promising sectors that will bring a high income to the national 
economy is National Tourism, says the president of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, – Uzbekistan 
is a state with great potential in the field of Tourism. There are more than 7 thousand 300 objects 
of cultural heritage in our country and most of them are included in the UNESCO list. At the same 
time, it is possible to open new tourist destinations, taking advantage of the unique nature of our 
country, the possibilities of beautiful recreation zones. With the active involvement of world 
brands in this sector, we should pay special attention to the development of tourism, 
environmental, educational, ethnographic, gastronomic, tourism and other sectors of this sector. In 
this regard, we should take into account that the application of public-private partnership relations 
opens wide opportunities for the development of the industry. It is necessary to develop and 
accelerate the program “Small Hajj”, which consists of visiting holy shrines and monuments in 
Samarkand, Bukhara, Tashkent. It is also necessary to fully launch large-scale opportunities in the 
field of internal tourism [1.128-129]. 

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Electronic Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 
Vol 2: Issue II 
ISSN: 2706 – 8242 
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