With the government pouring money into infrastructure – construction has started on a new airport near capital Ulan Bator – tourism is set to play an even greater role in the country's economy.
Inevitably if imperceptibly, the infrastructure sustaining the glitterati elite has started to crumble.
Electric vehicle adoption has started slowly as infrastructure of charging networks are still being built up.
While cities and agglomerations gain centrality and infrastructure, the accessibility of rural areas has started to decrease regionally, compared to cities and also in absolute terms.
Infrastructure in some parts has crumbled to the point where raw sewage has started bubbling up into basements.
The EU and other donors have pledged that euro2.4 billion-worth of projects to improve the region's infrastructure will have started by next spring; spread among half a dozen countries, that is less than it sounds.
Recently, infrastructure managers have started introducing environmental management systems into their business processes, based on the ISO 14000 standards, to mitigate environmental risks posed by infrastructure.
Similar infrastructure rating tools have started to be developed and implemented, being highly necessary to promote its development.
"We've started to implement infrastructure that will help with bike-and-ride trips.
President Barack Obama's forces have started with an advantage: an extensive infrastructure built on the foundations of their 2008 effort.
