The Taliban hopes to remedy Afghanistan’s many woes by making the highly conservative, poverty-stricken, war-torn country tourism-women-7acb04bb78dd779e763a337790113cec” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>a tourism destination.
Would-be bookers understand they have their work cut out for them.
Visas are hard to procure. The Taliban’s treatment of women is famously abhorrent. None of the the country’s airports have direct flights to Europe, India or China, which the tourism Directorate in Kabul hopes to make a large market. There’s also an absence of foreign embassies.
But there’s reason for guarded optimism.
In 2021, only 691 foreign tourists visited Afghanistan. The Taliban took control of the Middle East nation in September of that year when U.S. troops withdrew after 20 years of war. The following year, the number of foreign tourists more than tripled to 2,300. That number skyrocketed to 7,000 visitors in 2023.
“They hear that Afghanistan is backwards, poverty and all about war,” business school graduate and aspiring hotelier Samir Ahmadzai told…
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