Jagshemash! Kazakhstan...is niiiice...you Like! The Land of Borat Makes the List of Countries Travellers Want to Check out. TRAVEL SNOB TRAVEL BLOG

Borat hangs with the natives.

When asked where they most want to visit in Europe, just under 3,000 travellers participating in the TravellersConnected.com poll - a free UK travel Web site featuring travel forums and travelling information -  voted for Kazakstan in droves. “It’s really quite fantastic what Borat has done to raise the public profile of Kazakhstan. For the country to get more votes than Spain demonstrates the sheer power of the media. When we compiled the same survey last year Kazakhstan barely got any votes at all,” notes Alastair Banks of TravellersConnected.com. "We understand that Kazakh president Nursaltan Nazarbayev thought that Borat had damaged the world’s perception of Kazakhstan. For the right reasons or wrong, it looks however that the film has really put the country on the map.” In fact, there's been such a surge in demand, Air Astana has now put a third scheduled weekly flight into Almaty, Kazakhstan from London.

The results of the TravellersConnected.com poll of the Top 10 European destinations that people want to visit:

1. Italy - 22%
2. UK - 18%
3. Kazakhstan - 16%
4. Spain - 12%
5. France - 10 %
6. Greece - 7%
7. Turkey - 5%
8. Austria - 4%
9. Germany - 3%
10. Holland - 3%

For more information about travelling to Kazakhstan or other countries, or to become a member, visit TravellersConnected.com.

- The Travel Snob