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Mongolia holds eagle festival to promote pandemic-hit tourism sector
Mongolia kicked off its annual Golden Eagle Festival near the capital city on Saturday to promote the country's pandemic-hit tourism sector.
The event called "Nomadic Winter - Golden Eagle Festival" was co-organized by the Mongolian Eagle Hunters' Association and Governor's Office of the western province of Bayan-Ulgii under the auspices of the country's Ministry of Environment and Tourism and Ministry of Culture.
"Our country organizes more than 100 events a year to promote the tourism sector. The eagle festival is one of the main winter tourism events with its unique features," Erkhembayar Battulga, state secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, told the Xinhua News Agency during the event.
More than 10 eagle hunters from Bayan-Ulgii Province, home to eagle hunters, participated in the 12th edition of the event, which features several activities to showcase the skills of both the birds and their trainers, including specially trained golden eagles catching small animals such as foxes and hares and owners calling eagles from some distance away.
The festival, canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, attracted thousands of domestic and foreign tourists in 2022.
The event called "Nomadic Winter - Golden Eagle Festival" was co-organized by the Mongolian Eagle Hunters' Association and Governor's Office of the western province of Bayan-Ulgii under the auspices of the country's Ministry of Environment and Tourism and Ministry of Culture.
"Our country organizes more than 100 events a year to promote the tourism sector. The eagle festival is one of the main winter tourism events with its unique features," Erkhembayar Battulga, state secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, told the Xinhua News Agency during the event.
More than 10 eagle hunters from Bayan-Ulgii Province, home to eagle hunters, participated in the 12th edition of the event, which features several activities to showcase the skills of both the birds and their trainers, including specially trained golden eagles catching small animals such as foxes and hares and owners calling eagles from some distance away.
The festival, canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, attracted thousands of domestic and foreign tourists in 2022.
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