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Wed, 07/23/2014 - 12:28
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HOW MUCH IS TO TRAVEL ABROAD?

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The money spent by Mongolians in tourism and travels have been calculated by City’s Tourism Department, National Center of Tourism and the Bank of Mongolia. The survey was conducted randomly among seven tourism enterprises, 697 people who traveled abroad by airplanes and 324 who traveled to China through the Zamyn-Uud border checkpoint. A majority of the Mongolian travelers visited China, South Korea and Japan, others visited Thailand, India, Singapore and Qatar. A gender ratio of the travelers is quite balanced, most of them are people aged 30-39. In terms of purpose of the traveling, 44% went abroad for tours and leisure, 32%--for business and official works, and 12%--for medical services and diagnosis. Moreover, 13% of the all travelers organized their visits through tourism companies, 87%--arranged everything themselves. The Mongolians mostly spend less than 30 days abroad, exploit approximately 1,622 US dollars per person. The largest amount of money was spent by the travelers to the USA and Canada, the lowest amount of cash--by travelers to Russia.

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