Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said at the meeting of the chairmanship of the government commission on tourism development, that Russia plans to create year-round beach resorts on the shores of the Baltic, Black, Caspian, Azov and Japanese seas by 2030.
“Priority resorts can be Novaya Anapa and Abrau-Dyurso, Crimea (“Golden Sands of Russia” and Saki), Caspian coastal cluster (Dagestan), Kaliningrad (“Russian Baltic”), Primorsky Krai (Vladivostok, Khasansky district)”,
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According to Chernyshenko, seaside resorts will be designed to accommodate at least 10 million tourists each year.
It is planned to create another resort on Lake Baikal, where a special economic zone regime is already operating. Officials expect the new resorts to create at least 44,000 hotel beds and attract investment.
Chernyshenko emphasized that the launch of the year-round sea resorts will contribute to the achievement of the indicators of the national project “Tourism and Hospitality Industry”. One of its goals is to increase the number of domestic tourists in Russia to 140 million by 2030.
Yachting in the “Russian Baltic” and Primorye
The head of the Kaliningrad region, Anton Alikhanov, spoke about the Russian Baltic project, which includes the construction of a resort in the Yantarny urban district. According to him, as a result it will be possible to create a chain of resorts on the Baltic Sea coast.
According to Alikhanov, the natural features of the region will be used for the development of tourism.
We are not only talking about sandy beaches up to 300 meters wide, but also about spa treatments using hot springs and blue clay.”
Primorye Governor Oleg Kozhemyako announced plans to create a resort with an area of more than 150 hectares in the Khasansky District, which will include hotels and restaurants, a fish market, a water park and entertainment for children.
According to him, demand from companies providing services in yachting and surfing has increased in the region.
“The Sea of Japan has great potential for yachting. Undoubtedly, a special stage in the development of the entertainment industry here should be the creation of a full-fledged seaside resort.
He noted international tourism prospects: “One hour’s drive away is the border in Jilin province, where about 50 million Chinese live and have no access to the sea.”
Tourism projects in the south
Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratiev said that in the last three years, investment in the tourism sector has increased 25 times.
“Today, 44 projects worth 418 billion rubles are being implemented in the region,” said Kondratyev.
According to him, four and five-star hotels, which are most popular among tourists, are built in the region. The governor believes the new hotels will help contain price increases for vacations in the region.
In the Zaporozhye region, authorities plan to create a resort of Primorsk on the coast of the Sea of u200bu200bAzov, with campsites, hotels and a landscape park, and infrastructure construction for the Caspian coastal cluster in Dagestan is scheduled to begin in 2024. , reported the press service of Kavkaz.RF JSC.
He said that the demand for domestic tourism has not weakened, but that many tourists in Russia have been stopped due to rising prices and problems in transport accessibility of tourist destinations. forbes Travel Agencies Executive Director Natalia Osipova The share of tourists traveling by car to the sea reached a record level this year.
Fun&Sun told Forbes that the average check for tours in Russia has increased by 10-15% compared to 2022. The newspaper writes that the price of flights from Moscow to Sochi increased on average by 29%, to Irkutsk – 34%, to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky – 67%. According to the study, the budget planned for the remainder of one person per year increased by 20% and reached a historical maximum. VTsIOM.