Kazan tourism projects claim for the award “Russian Event Awards”
22 September 2015, Tuesday
Kazan projects struggle for the national tourism award in the field of event tourism «Russian Event Awards 2015". The regional stage of the Volga Federal District competition is taking place these days in Tolyatti.
Republic of Tatarstan is presented in 10 different categories in the competition. So, the nomination "The best idea for the development of event tourism" involves three projects of Tatarstan: Kazan International Argentine Tango Festival «Fuego de la noche Kazan», Birthday of chak-chak and the Festival of folk epics, traditions and heroes "Keepers of fairy tales". The project "Kazan star bike night” claims to win in the nomination "Youth Event". Gastronomic festival "Delicious Kazan" presented in the nomination "The best project in the field of gastronomic tourism". In addition, the exhibition "70 portraits of the Great Victory" is nominated as "The best event dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War".
Also Tatarstan participates in the contest in nominations "The best project of the historical focus", "The best project on the popularization of folk traditions and crafts", "The best project on the promotion of event tourism", "The best tourist information center", "The best platform for the development of event tourism" and others.
180 projects from 15 regions were submitted at the regional stage of the contest. The winners will be announced after the stage presentation of projects. Winners of the regional competition will take part in the finals of the National Award in the field of event tourism «Russian Event Awards» 2015, which will be held October 21 and 22 in Kazan.
National award in the field of event tourism «Russian Event Awards», adjudged on the basis of an open competition of projects for the achievements in the development of event tourism, was established in 2012 to promote the scope of event tourism. As conceived by the founders of the award, the competition should become not only showcase of the best practices in the field of event tourism and promotion of territories through the events, but the communication platform in the field of domestic event tourism, the press service of the State Committee for Tourism of RT informs.
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