Holidaying in a country torn apart by warfare and ruled by fundamentalists won’t be top of everyone’s bucket list but the number of foreign tourists visiting Afghanistan rose 120% in 2023, reaching nearly 5,200.
Travel officials want Afghanistan to become a “tourism powerhouse”, said AP, an ambition backed by the Taliban’s top leaders, who assured The Times that “attention has been paid to peace and order in the areas where tourists go.”
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