PECULARITIES OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN NAMANGAN REGION

Abstract

Namangan is a large city in the northern part of the Fergana Valley, 300 km from Tashkent, & the administrative centre of Namangan province. Namangan with population of about 5 Lack people ranks as the 3 largest city in Uzbekistan after Tashkent & Samarkand. The city's name translates from Uzbek as ‘salt mine.’ For the first time the city was mentioned in Babur’s memoirs (Baburnama); however according to archaeological data, the first settlement sprang up on the site in the 1st century BC. Today Namangan has turned into  large modern city, one of Uzbekistan’s main industrial and cultural centres. This article addresses to the analysis of wide use of historical recreational resources in Namangan region.