ASTANA. January 19. KAZINFORM /Serik Sabekov/ We can involve people who are free in other sectors into tourism sector; Head of the Government Karim Massimov has said it today at the session of the Kazakh Ministry of Tourism and Sport.

"Such sector of our industry as the tourism sector - is that sector where we can involve people who are released from production, from agriculture", - he noted.

The Premier urged the Ministry of Tourism and Sport jointly with the Ministries of Economy and Budget Planning, Industry and Trade to develop this issue.

According to him this issue has not been considered yet through such a perspective as far as till 2007 there was a shortage of labor and we involved foreign labor from near-border countries. He also reminded that our country has a task to increase the labor productivity, implement new technology that can lead to release of working places.