NEWS

Sergey Ivanov, the Chairman of Tatarstan State Committee on Tourism, takes part at the “2016 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum”. Today he has spoken at the panel session “The management model for the development of inbound and domestic tourism.” At the panel session Sergei Ivanov spoke about how tourism is being developed in the Republic of Tatarstan, and what results has been achieved: “According to the results of the year 2015 the Republic of Tatarstan has a positive dynamics of growth of main indicators of development of the tourism industry. Touristic flow including excursionists to the Republic of Tatarstan amounted to more than 2.7 million people“, - Sergey Ivanov said.

On June 18th in Kulegash town of the Agryzskiy district in Tatarstan the republician holiday of Mari culture “Semyk” will be held. Folk music groups from different parts of the Russian Federation and municipal districts of Tatastan will take part at the celebration.

The event will open with the parade of delegations on the Maidan, the prologue “Treasury of folk spirituality - Semyk holiday” and raising the flag of the holiday. The program will include national horse racing, Mari farmstead and “City of Masters” tours, concert program at the central square and small stage. There will also be competitions “Mari patyr-2016” and “Mari Chever udyr-2016."

The promotional tour to the Kostroma district will take place from 24 to 25 of June. The participants of the press-tour will take part in the highlight tour around the Kostroma, the panel discussion “The modern condition and future development of the active types of tourism in Kostroma district”, the guided tour to Ipat’evsk monastery, to the reserve-museum “Kostromskaya sloboda”, also they will visit the International jewelry festival “Zolotoe koltso Rossii”, will participate in the Camp food competition “Pohlyebka” (The culinary contest between amateurs and professionals), will visit the Sumarokovsk moose farm etc.

The application deadline – the 17th of June.

You can leave an application via e-mail: E.Sorokina@tatar.ru.

If you have any questions, please contact us via phone: 222-90-37, Varlamova Elena

The Big cruise holiday took place at the River port for the Kazan citizens. This activity was supported by the State Committee of Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan and was carried out by the biggest river cruising tour operators. They are “Vodohod”, “Volzhskie puteshestviya+”, “Infoflot” and “Sputnik-Germes”. Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan, Catherine Barabanova has taken part in it. She started the activity and wished a good mood to the audience. Then the holiday continued with the musical and dancing routine, which was arranged by the artists acted on the decks of each company. Guests had the opportunity not only to observe the concert, but also to go on the deck and see the internal structure of the ship. The site of the oncoming historical festival “Velikii Bolgar” was on the cruise holiday, too and all guests could put on historical clothes, take photos in it and get a memorable souvenir.

A two-decker bus with the sights of Kazan by the company City Sightseeing Worldwide has run in Moscow. This advertising reminds to Muscovities about Kazan touristic facilities. There are 55 seats in the bus, sliding ramp for the disabled persons and audio-guide on 9 languages. There is the same sightseeing bus in Kazan.

Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan, Catherine Barabanova, has taken part at the regional Conference of the Russian Business Tourism Association (ABT-ACTE Russia) “Theory and practice in organization of trips and activities,” which takes place at the hotel Courtyard by Marriott Kazan Kremlin. She introduced touristic alternatives in the Republic of Tatatrstan. Talking about Tatarstan she highlighted cities such as Kazan, Bolgar, Elabuga and city-island Sviyazhsk. Ekaterina Brabanova pointed out that except the great history, unique nature, advanced infrastructure and highly-developed service level, the Republic has good safety rate and all potential tourists can feel comfortable here. She has also told about various cultural events program: Festival “Velikiyi Bulgar”, “Spasskaya Yarmarka”, etc

Kazan has taken the 3rd place among Russian cities at the popularity of traveling on the Russia Day The most popular Russian touristic directions on the holiday days were found out by the touristic service Travel.tu and agency “TourStat”. According to Travel.ru, the top list was made with the reference to hotels booking in the period from June 11th to 13th in the year 2016 by backpackers. The service has found out that tourists in Saint-Petersburg in a hotel will pay 4.000 rubles for one day, in Moscow this amount will be 3.100 rubles, in Kazan - 2900, in Sochi - 2900 and in Yalta - over 4000 rubles per day. Comparing with last year the amount of online-booking in Sochi and Kazan in June has raised to one quarter this year.

The first Global conference “Development of rural tourism in the Volga Federal District: circumstances, problems and prospects” Kazan - Bolgar will be held on July 28th and 29th. The seminar is supposed to be visited by: The representatives of non-profit, commercial and regional, municipal institutions who are responsible for the issues of development rural tourism and its subjects. Leaders of Russian non-profit organizations, CIS countries, the Ministry of Agriculture institutions, heads and specialists of the Civil Code of the Republic of Tatarstan on Tourism, the Department of Agriculture and P RT, and representatives of other cooperative organizations and agencies. Addresses and registration time: Kazan city, Korston, N.Ershova street, house 1A. From 9.00 a.m.to 12.00 a.m., Bolgar city, meeting point: Tankeevka-Bolgar 1/8 “Edem” caffee, the place of location: Rzhavez town “Kazachiya Usadba” from 10.00 am to 19.00.

Museum-reserve "Kazan Kremlin" invites you on 7 June at 14.00 at the opening of the exhibition "Symphony of gems" from the private collection of Alexander V. Donskoy in the Museum of natural history of Tatarstan.
This collection can rightfully be considered one of the largest mineralogical collections in Russia. The exhibits presented at the exhibition will first be shown to a wider audience., It is tempting charoit from Eastern Siberia, sparkling garnet crystals from Kazakhstan, luxury agate from Brazil, simply tourmaline from Madagascar, aquamarine sea green from Transbaikalia and mysterious aragonite from Uzbekistan

These weekends the “Bloggers NeForum 2016” participants have had a chance to learn even more about Tatarstan and see one of the main sights and most important holidays. They have been in the famous city-island Sviyazhsk and Sabantui celebration in Laishevo. On the Lenivyi Torzhok in Sviyazhsk the guests were offered to try well-known pancakes and take an excursion around the island. And at the Sabantui celebration holding in Laishevo they had a good opportunity to try the ethnic cuisine and take part in competitions. It is a reminder that “Blogers NeForum 2016” was held in Kazan from June 3th to 5th. During all “NeForums” days the participants have been sharing with their experience at different themes: traveling, health, SMM-technologies, etc.