Tourism like a market and showcase - interconnection and interdependency of these two investment and information aspects became key topic of a regular issue of “Siyahat” (“Tourism”) magazine, being published by the State Committee for Tourism.

Popularization and rise of prestige of the national tourism industry is the principal mission of the magazine, which also gives selective information about events particularly of international level in this field, popular science materials of ethnographic and historic-cultural subject matter for wider readership, brief press-excursions of informative type.


The topic of international cooperation and integration of Turkmenistan into the global tourism market took particular place in the regular issue of the magazine.

Traditional rubric “Dastarhan” tells about traditions of national cuisine and main festive dish of spring New Year’s Day Novruz Bairam – semeni.

It will be interesting for the foreign readers to know about history of origin of several samples of the State Flag of Turkmenistan in the national heraldry and symbolism.

The favorite rubric of the Turkmen readers “Wonders of the planet” offers world natural places of interest. This time, the story is about underground lake Puerto Princesa in the Philippines – one of most miraculous and wonderful natural phenomena of the planet.