Russian national parks and nature reserves are getting ready to welcome their future visitors

On April 23, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation held a meeting via videoconference with the representatives of the specially protected natural areas of federal importance, chaired and supervised by Elena Panova, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation. The agenda of the meeting included the discussion of the measures for promotion ecotourism in the coming season and the proposals for overcoming the crisis in the tourism industry caused by COVID-19.

“The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation is working on promoting ecotourism in specially protected natural areas, this work includes increasing the tourist traffic in national parks and nature reserves. At the moment, we can already register the decrease in tourist traffic in national parks and nature reserves, including the potential loss of future tourism income by specially protected natural areas. But tourism will get back on track, and we should use this period of forced calm to the full to get ready,” said Elena Panova in her address.

Elena Panova reported that according to various expert groups, once the situation was normalized that season, domestic tourism would experience significant growth. Compared to the summer of 2014, the demand for domestic tourism had almost tripled, and these figures were recorded prior to the well-known global events related to the pandemic. The south of Russia, the Crimea, and the Caucasus were typically in high demand, while Altai, the Kamchatka Peninsula, Lake Baikal, the Russian Far East, the Golden Ring of Russia, Siberia, Tatarstan, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and other destinations were rightfully recognized as popular.

The series of meetings via videoconference with the directors of national parks and nature reserves would be resumed.

Source: www.mnr.gov.ru

Опубликовано: 23 April 2020