Astana Travel Expo

Forget Russia! If you want good ballet head to Astana...

The dancers from La Scala leap to choreography by the late Rudolf Nureyev; the orchestra plays; the sets on the vast stage transform as dramatically as if they were 3D projections. Leaning over the rococo-style, curvaceous red and gold balconies, the audience is as rapt as it is...

Created on 04 February 2015.

Kazakh skiing resort Shymbulak full to brink

Shymbulak mountain skiing resort located not far from Almaty has began experiencing problems because of a big influx of visitors, Tengrinews reports citing the head of the resort Yerzhan Yerkinbayev. Located in a picturesque clove of Ile Alatau mountains near Almaty, the largest...

Created on 04 February 2015.

Astana welcomes nearly 650,000 tourists in 2014

ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Over the past 17 years the Kazakh capital Astana has turned into a major tourist attraction, Kazinform has learnt from astana.kz. According to reports, tourist arrivals to Astana continue to flourish - nearly 650,000 tourists visited the city in 2014. There...

Created on 15 January 2015.

Kazakhstan to Offer Tourists Caviar Baths

What to get the oligarch who has everything? How about a caviar spa experience on the shores of the Caspian Sea? Billed as a "black caviar spa for real gourmands," this is one of the leisure experiences that will be available at the upmarket Kenderli resort in Kazakhstan when...

Created on 23 October 2014.

Kazakhstan Establishes Visa-Free Regime for 10 Countries

ASTANA – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced on June 12 that Kazakhstan is about to establish a visa-free regime for citizens of 10 countries. The announcement came during his speech to the Foreign Investors' Council at the Borovoye Lake resort. Thevisa-free regime...

Created on 21 June 2014.

ITECA PARTICIPATES IN THE VII ASTANA ECONOMIC FORUM

Kazakhstan Exhibition Company Iteca informs about participation in the VII Astana Economic Forum and the II World Anti-Crisis Conference, which will be held on May 21-23, 2014 in Astana. Upcoming events organized by the company will be presented on renewed Iteca stand. First of...

Created on 20 May 2014.

Kazakhstan and UNWTO signed cooperation memo within EXPO-2017

Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan - Minister of Industry and New Technologies Asset Issekeshev and Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Taleb Rifai have signed memorandum of cooperation in tourism within EXPO 2017,during the visit of the Kazakhstani delegation...

Created on 07 March 2014.

Building a New Capital… and a New Nation

Astana celebrated its 15th anniversary as the capital of Kazakhstan on July 6. And what 15 years it has been... When President Nursultan Nazarbayev first presented the idea of transferring the capital from the tree-lined megapolis of Almaty in the picturesque foothills of the...

Created on 17 July 2013.

Astana – the winning city!

The capital of Kazakhstan was chosen to host the international specialized exhibition EXPO-2017. Astana was victorious. The result was proclaimed in Paris France, at the headquarters of the International Exhibitions Bureau (BIE), on November 22, 2012, after 10 pm Astana time....

Created on 26 November 2012.