Der Ausländertourismus in Afghanistan bis 1979 : Entwicklung, Struktur und räumliche Problematik

Abstract: It was only from the mid-sixties that Afghanistan attracted increasing numbers of foreigners and was thus integrated into international tourism for more than one decade. Visitors from Pakistan and, during the most recent years, from India formed the main group. Among western tourists there were two distinct groups:1. well-to-do visitors mainly arriving by air and being to a great extent package tourists, 2. young people travelling overland to or from India and Nepal. In general most foreign tourists visited Afghanistan only on transit, not as their main destination. Popular tourist attractions were, apart from Kabul and other towns, places of art-historical or archaeological interest such as Bamyan, Jam, Hadda, Surkh Kotal etc. or of natural beauty such as the lakes of Band-i-Amir. Tourist accommodation was concentrated in the main towns and in Bamyan (fig.1); the high attractivity of Bamyan was proved by the number of nights spent there by tourists on ATO package tours (fig.2). A .... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/2007

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Der Ausländertourismus in Afghanistan bis 1979 ; volume:37 ; number:2 ; year:1983 ; Erdkunde ; 37, Heft 2 (1983)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Grötzbach, Erwin

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.1983.02.07
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410290927529.893730525947
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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