TOURIST RELATIONS KAZAKHSTAN WITH THE COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES AT THE MODERN STAGE

Abstract

This article discusses the features of the formation of the tourist geo-economic space of Kazakhstan and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), including the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Republic of Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan. The article analyzes the features of the development of tourist relations between states, factors that both favor and hinder the development of tourism in the Commonwealth countries. The authors evaluated tourism relations using the calculation of the coefficient of intensity of tourist relations (CITR) according to the data of the Statistics committee of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. As a result of the analysis of the coefficients of intensity of tourist relations of the CIS countries for inbound tourism with the Republic of Kazakhstan, the group of countries with "high" connections includes the border States of Central Asia. Calculations of the coefficient of intensity of tourist relations for outbound tourism allowed us to identify the Russian Federation as a country with a "high" level of arrival of Kazakhstanis.