{"id":7252,"date":"2019-12-03T08:05:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T07:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"urn:uuid:ebdd65df-93c0-4add-8ba5-bc27067ba93e"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:31:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T07:31:11","slug":"ever-heard-of-kazakhstan-or-nursultan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fhgr.ch\/blog\/ever-heard-of-kazakhstan-or-nursultan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever heard of Kazakhstan or Nursultan?"},"content":{"rendered":"
A story of 8 passionate and adventurous tourism students analyzing the MICE Tourism potential of a young but growing city under the motto \u00abNursultan - Where Business meets Nature\u00bb.<\/p>\n
In the middle of the Great Steppe, the city Nursultan (formerly known as Astana) was built up from scratch in just 20 years to become a worthy capital for Kazakhstan as well as an internationally known commercial business hotspot. With its location between Europe and Asia it is the heart of Eurasia and a center for religions, politics and economy. Recognizing this USP, Kazakhstan wants to place its capital on the world map as the new \u00abplace to be\u00bb for MICE Tourism.<\/p>\n
Within the context of the module \u00abProject Management in Practice\u00bb and thereby the project Study Week Kazakhstan, we had the unique chance to get to know an extraordinary destination from a touristic as well as from a business perspective. With this knowledge we were able to understand what it means to be a MICE destination and which requirements this entails.<\/p>\n
Field of Research<\/strong><\/p>\n In order to be able to analyze Nursultan\u2019s potential of becoming a MICE destination, we first met one of the most experienced company when it comes to Meetings, Incentives, Conferences or Events (MICE). They explained us all the different aspects in this special field of the tourism industry such as requirements a destination must meet. Necessities like accessibility, infrastructure, political or social stability and economic situation were addressed.<\/p>\n However, arriving in Nursultan after a 6 hours flight we realized that we have just landed in a city with a huge potential in the MICE industry. The city itself strongly reminds one of Dubai and shows potential for business as well as leisure tourism.<\/p>\n\n