Expats and reality
Jun 08 2010
about reality of tourism in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan has a potential in nature tourism.
There are 1203 touristic companies in the country, almost half in Almati. Around 3,000 people are working there. People have to pay $800 for a tourism in Turkey or Alakol in Kazakhstan, and people chose Turkey because it's more comfortabe and civilized and safe. People pay 50$ for a room in Alalkol for instance,
about Alakol in Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Alakol
in Kyrgyzstan for the same price people get additonally food, pool, beach. The roads in Kazakhstan are bad, especially to Alakol.
Before there were no private territories in the nature resourts but now there are and services are poor und not-civilized.
Now it's restricted quite often to visit nature resourts, without any explanation. Becuase of uncontrolled situation there people take unofficially money for the nature resourt entry.
Summarizing it could be said that Kazakhstan has a lot of minuses as well as pluses.
* from open resources
