In connection with the decision of the Government of Mongolia to declare 2023-2025 as the “Years to visit Mongolia”, the Cabinet has made a decision to temporarily exempt from visa requirements for the nationals of the following 34 countries, who are traveling to Mongolia for tourism purposes up to 30 days. This includes 32 developed European countries, Australia, and New Zealand, which lead the number of tourists visiting Mongolia. The decision, aimed to attract foreign tourists and facilitate travel conditions, was made at the meeting of the Cabinet on 4th of January, 2023 and will be effective until the end of 2025.

/MONTSAME/. In 2022, Mongolia traded with 160 countries from all over the world, and the total trade turnover reached USD 21.2 billion, of which exports were USD 12.5 billion and imports were USD 8.7 billion. The total foreign trade turnover increased by USD 5.2 (32.1%) billion, where exports increased by USD 3.3 (35.7%) billion and imports increased by USD 1.9 (27.2%) billion compared to the same period of the previous year. In December 2022, exports increased by USD 259.7 (22.9%) million and imports increased by USD 107.4 (14.8%) million compared to the previous month.

/MONTSAME/. Khuvsgul aimag declared this year a “Year to Visit Khuvsgul” in order to develop sustainable tourism based on natural, historical, and cultural heritage. In the framework of this initiative, 11 special events are going to be held to increase the number of domestic and foreign tourists who visit the aimag.

/MONTSAME/. MIAT Mongolian Airlines signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Mongolian Tourism Association today. Accordingly, foreign tourists coming to our country can get a flight ticket with a 30% discount.

The President complimented them for creating conditions for citizens to receive health and education services virtually and introducing electronic payment services, national data centers, and national geographic and language translation systems based on cloud systems.

The women`s Team from Mongolia`s Royal International University won a Bronze medal by overcoming a side from Iran`s Islamic Azad University 15-12 at the FISU 3x3 Basketball World Cup. The Mongolian 3x3 Basketball Association congratulated its female athletes and Mongolia's State honored coach S. Tulga and wished them great success.

The Intellectual Intelligence Museum of Mongolia is recorded in the new edition of the “Guinness World Records 2023” book and selected as the museum with the largest collection of chess sets in the world. The museum was established on August 13, 1990, and is the first private museum in Mongolia. A total of about 11,000 items including overall 5000 toys, puzzles, and games, and about 500 chess sets are on view. Some of them are crafted by the museum founder himself and some of them are collected from more than 130 countries.

The Borjigon horse-head fiddle, which dates back to the 17th century, was brought back to its homeland and placed in the Mongolian Theater Museum. In 2004, a member of the Professors of Cultural Studies team at the Mongolian University of Arts and Culture, head of the Mongolian Ethnic Music Center, and ethnic music researcher D. Ganpurev organized this work to bring back the flaxen chestnut fiddle to Mongolia. The event continued with a “Horsehead Fiddle’s Historical Research” speech from him and an “Altai” music group performance. The flaxen chestnut horse-head fiddle was restored with two strings and was played by the fiddler D. Shinetsog.

The Government of Mongolia announced 2023 and 2024 as "The Years to Visit Mongolia" and approved the slogan "Welcome to Mongolia."

Ulaanbaatar City Tourism Department and ‘TanuSoft’ LLC will jointly implement 'UB Winter Sale' project.

‘Chinggis Khaan’ museum exposing 2,000 years of Mongolia’s history of kings, nobles, nomads people, and their statehood from the Mongol Empire to the beginning of the XX century, opened its door and held the Nine White Banners ceremony.

The WDSF World Championship 2022 was held in Braunschweig, Germany on October 15. In this competition, representing Mongolia, the "Moon dance" and "Star" teams participated in the category of Formation Standard, and the “Khatan Tuul” team participated in Formation Latin with a team consisting of 107 people. Thus, the "Moon Dance" team won the silver medal for the first time in WDSF World Championship 2022, and it was a great success not only for Mongolia but also for Asia as no Asian team has ever won a medal in the competition before.

One-Time English Language Performance for the Expat Community and Visitors of Ulaanbaatar

  Under the motto “Let’s Read More” the book festival was held for three days. The festival was organized on a wider scale this year to promote public reading, enrich collections and inventories of being kept by libraries, support children’s and youth’s desire to learn and disseminate knowledge.

   Soyombo’ exhibition brings 17th to 19th century art for view The National Museum of Mongolia, in cooperation with collector B.Amarsanaa, is presenting a special exhibition entitled “Soyombo National Symbol of Mongolia” to promote, recognize and pass on Mongolia’s historical and cultural heritage to future generations. B.Amarsanaa’s collection accounts for 60 percent of the exhibition while the rest is made up of artifacts from the medieval collection of the museum.