INBOUND TOURISM AS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND FUTURE MARKET DRIVER

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This article examines and forecasts current inbound tourism using six variables: travel population, travel motivations, tourism consumption, public transportation, social environment, and time proportion. Other human elements, such as scenic spot capacity and natural resource conservation, have a significant impact. There will have a different impact. Tourism has evolved into one of the world's most important industries. It generated a substantial amount of revenue and had a significant influence. Current research on this topic need improvement. The findings reveal that over the last five years, cities inbound foreign exchange income has increased, as it is influenced by a variety of factors that can be used to forecast future development trends. Between 2020 and 2024, Uzbekistan's foreign exchange profits from inbound tourism increased steadily. Keywords. Inbound tourism, foreign exchange, tourism development, foreign tourist, economic driver, tourism market. Introduction. Tourism is currently one of the world's most important industries. Tourism, as a new growth point for the national economy and the driving force of the leisure sector, is critical to all elements of economic development in the twenty-first century. The government places a high value on the growth of tourism and the solid basis created since reform and opening up. The adoption of reform and opening up has created new opportunities and a larger space for inbound tourism. The Uzbek tourism business has maintained a robust, steady, and rapid growth trend. In Выпуск журнала №-19 Часть–4_ Февраль –2025 83 MODERN EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT this new era, people have improved their financial lives while expanding their spiritual lives, and they are more likely to travel. According to the Statistics Agency, a total of 8.2 million foreign citizens visited Uzbekistan for tourist purposes in 20241. Uzbekistan's tourist research has to be upgraded as the industry grows rapidly. According to data analysis of the amount of foreign tourism population from 2020 to 2024, Uzbekistan's tourism population is increasing. It is clear that an increasing number of people are accepting the relaxation of tourism, which is influenced by a variety of variables such as economic income, a shift in consciousness, a shift in the social environment, and so on. In recent years, foreign exchange income from inbound tourism has consistently increased throughout provinces. Further examination and calculation of all components of foreign exchange income, as well as some factors of higher degree correlation. Literature review. Visitors can travel both within their home nations and internationally. They must cross political and administrative borders (with the exception of holiday homes). It is critical to define tourism in relation to those borders in order to establish which economy (or location) the economic effects of tourist will have. That is what the concept of different types of tourism is about. A domestic trip is one in which the principal destination is within the visitor's home country. An inbound or outbound travel involves a principal destination beyond the visitor's country of residence. - An outbound tourist trip, like a domestic vacation, may involve visits to places within the visitor's home country. For example, a person traveling abroad may need to first go to the city from which his or her flight will depart. While at that city, he or she may spend a few days. This segment of the trip would be classified as a domestic visit. - An inbound journey only comprises visits within the country of reference. A visitor is a traveler on a tourist excursion. A visitor is someone who pays a visit to a certain location. Travelers must stay in a location for a minimum of time and 1 https://stat.uz/uz/ Выпуск журнала №-19 Часть–4_ Февраль –2025 84 MODERN EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT participate in non-economic activities. The trip is the statistical unit of tourist statistics, and the visitor is one of its attributes. A tourism trip is a trip taken by a traveler to a destination outside their typical surroundings for less than a year, without the main goal of working for a resident entity in the country or location visited (figure- 1). Traveler The “trip” refers to a round (Foreign and trip, including all destinations local visitor) visited, from and back to the travelers’ usual PE RSPECTIVE environment. OF THE TRAVEL the term “trip” refers to the visit by the traveler (visitor) to that Tourism destination destination specifically, (and not to other possible destinations on that travelers round trip). Figure-1. Perspective of the travel and trip2. Result and discussion. The concept of usual environment plays a major role in tourism statistics: to be considered a tourism trip, travel must take the traveler outside his/her usual environment. “The usual environment of an individual, a key concept in tourism, is defined as the geographical area (though not necessarily a contiguous