INVESTMENT AS A FACTOR OF REGIONAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

Tourism, a key economic activity, which significantly contributes to the regional economic development of our country. The purpose of this article is to show the importance of tourism industry, indicate the current situation of tourism in Uzbekistan. The significance of investments has been considered in this paper in realizing the potential of this industry. Tourism is closely related to numerous geographical factors and features of regions, such as attractive landscapes and archaeological sightseeing, heritage and cultural assets which serve as necessary condition for tourism development. In other words, investment in tourism is the process of creating new tourist facilities with the help of capital, as well as the modernization or reconstruction of existing ones that can produce and provide certain types of tourist products (tourist services