Mongolia holds eagle festival to promote pandemic-hit tourism sector

The occasion referred to as “Nomadic Winter – Golden Eagle Competition” was co-organized by the Mongolian Eagle Hunters’ Affiliation and Governor’s Workplace of the western province of Bayan-Ulgii beneath the auspices of the nation’s Ministry of Atmosphere and Tourism and Ministry of Tradition.

“Our nation organizes greater than 100 occasions a 12 months to advertise the tourism sector. The eagle competition is among the primary winter tourism occasions with its distinctive options,” Erkhembayar Battulga, state secretary of the Ministry of Atmosphere and Tourism, instructed the Xinhua Information Company throughout the occasion.

Greater than 10 eagle hunters from Bayan-Ulgii Province, house to eagle hunters, participated within the twelfth version of the occasion, which options a number of actions to showcase the talents of each the birds and their trainers, together with specifically educated golden eagles catching small animals similar to foxes and hares and house owners calling eagles from a long way away.

The competition, canceled as a result of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, attracted 1000’s of home and overseas vacationers in 2022.