Tourism in Kazakhstan

The Republic of Kazakhstan attaches fairly great importance to the development to certain spheres of present-day infrastructure including tourism. In 1993 Kazakhstan became a full member of the World Tourism Organization. Nowadays 430 tourism agencies, firms and bureaus of various property forms function in the Republic of Kazakhstan. They employ nearly 6,000 people, 1,500 professional guides. It is obviously seen that tourism creates good employment that is why it became the first and the main advantage of tourism. Secondly, tourism – yielded profits grow annually. Thus, if in 9 months of 2003 the range of tourism-rendered services brought 2,604,738,700 tenge, the respective income in 9 months of 2004 amounted to 3,752,187,500 tenge. National income generated from tourism in 9 months of 2004 has grown by 59.8%. It talks about great economic rising. And at last, tourism brings more civilization, year by year tourists demand more comfortable conditions, new different trends and better service, just to make Kazakhstan beautiful, prosperous and interesting. As well as advantages there are some disadvantages, while our tourism develops we should think about ecology and pollution, too. It is the fact that thousands of tourists leave a lot of garbage behind; different remedies made to protect skin from sun pollute water. To sum up, tourism should be developed and rise, but while we do it we must try to avoid problems with pollution by quality of service rising.

Inclusive education

It has become apparent in recent years that the problem of educating the children with disabilities in Kazakhstan needs to be looked at carefully. Currently this issue is very essential for Kazakhstani educational system as it directly deals with society and entails well-being of the nation and the social development of the country as a whole. The presented issue is in current existing today because of the reason of totally ignoring the rights of persons with disabilities and viewing them as “not able to be educated” at all. Therefore this problem became a policy issue and should be solved somehow at the public level. The core thing here is the great extent of dependence of the future of the next generation and increasing the degree of democracy in Kazakhstan, what implies equality in rights and no prejudice within the society on the implementation of so-called “inclusive education”, meaning that disabled children should have rights to obtain the education together with their normal peers with no restriction of their personality.