Nine new regions have joined the national project “Tourism and the hospitality industry” as well as Chuvashia. In the presence of the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Chernyshenko, agreements were signed on the development of infrastructure between the corporation “Tourism.RF” and the regions of the Central, Siberian and Far Eastern districts.
“Today we are taking another significant step towards achieving national goals. Joint work with the regions allows us to create high-quality and affordable travel services for our citizens, opens up new travel directions for them. And most importantly, it meets both economic and social objectives. In 27 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, 50 tourism infrastructure projects will be implemented in the near future. We will create about 30 thousand new hotel rooms. Infrastructure development will give us an increase in tourist traffic by 9.4 million people in total in these regions. The projects will create an additional 20 thousand new jobs in different parts of our country, “Dmitry Chernyshenko emphasized.
The Deputy Prime Minister also noted that the tourism industry provides great growth potential for local business. For its implementation, the state provided for the support of private investors. Possibilities of co-financing of projects are included in the investment program of the corporation “Turizm.RF”.
General Director of “Turizm.RF” Sergei Sukhanov spoke about it.
“The formation of the priority investment program for 2021 is nearing completion. 2022 years. We considered 385 investment proposals, of which 50 were selected the most promising, for most of them positive investment conclusions have already been received. And this is just the beginning of our joint work. It is necessary to analyze tourist areas, formulate concepts for their development, carry out design, start construction and complete it on time, “he said.