DUSHANBE, September 10, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- A tourist map has been published in Tajikistan for the first time.  It has been published on an initiative of the Committee for Youth, Sports and Tourism Affairs.

Farrukh Izatulloyev, leading specialist at the committee’s tourism development department, told Asia-plus today that the map that was published in three languages (Tajik, Russian and English) is distributed to arriving tourists free of charge.

The map, having a circulation of a 2,000, contains information about tourist centers in the country and historical and cultural relics of Tajikistan.

According to the tourism development department, some 5,000 tourists have visited Tajikistan since the beginning of this year; the majority of them are mountaineers.