Targeted work for improvement of national tourism industry is carried out. At present, the State Committee for Tourism supervises seven government and 16 private tourist agencies, which activity is aimed at the introduction of national values and tourism capabilities of the country to Turkmenistan citizens and foreign guests. Internet resources especially the websites of the State Committee for Tourism, government and private travel agencies are widely used for the popularization of tourist capabilities of our country abroad and development of the tourism. The work in this direction is carried out together with National Department of Turkmenistan for Protection, Study and Restoration of Historical and Cultural Monuments. Presentation of our state at big international exhibitions, conferences, seminars, sessions of intergovernmental committees on economic cooperation, which provide the business part with meetings and talks together with visual and presentation component, is one efficient forms of activity for promotion of national tourism services in foreign markets. Negotiations on bilateral cooperation in these spheres were held this year with the heads of big tourist companies of China, Japan, Germany and Spain. Together with renewal of the content of tourist routes, the work on improvement of service culture is continued in the branch. At present, the training courses for tourist guides, who will receive international certificates upon the completion, are held with the participation of the specialists of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations (WFTGA). Talks between the State Committee for Tourism and the Eastern and Central Asia Department of Japanese International Cooperation Agency on activation of the relations between tourist industries of two countries took place in Ashgabat of November 15 in Ashgabat under the 17thMinisterial Conference of the CAREC. Japanese side proposed to continue the courses held under the cooperation in Central Asia + Japan programme, having paid special attention to the tourism as well as to organize the meeting of the representatives of tourism agencies in their country. It is planned to continue the work on gradual expansion of the routes for internal and entrance tourism as well as the development of individual tourism in 2019.