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The State Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan on Tourism congratulates Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Sekretova, the Chair of “The Guides’ Guild of the Republic of Tatarstan” Association, on her 70th Anniversary. For years of your labour in tourist industry you amassed great experience that helps you in your daily life and work. Erudite, energetic, besotted in history and culture, you’re one of the best leading guides of Kazan and the Republic of Tatarstan.

High capacity for work and immense creative potential helped you form a team of like-minded individuals able to implement most fascinating creative projects.

Your opinion is heeded by both young colleagues and experienced managers.

We cordially congratulate you with your anniversary and wish you strong health, happiness, and great successes in your labour for the benefit of tourism growth in the Republic of Tatarstan.

According to Gazeta.Ru, Kazan reached the third place in Top 10 most popular Russian cities as charted by Instagram social network.

The Top 10 list is headed by Moscow where the largest number of photographs had been taken, followed by Saint-Petersburg. The fourth and the fifth places are taken by Novosibirsk and Rostov-On-Don, respectively.

On November 29, the final stage of “The Journey To The Origins” contest was held at the Hermitage congress-hall. It is the first contest in Tatarstan focused on children and youth willing to develop domestic and inbound tourism in the Republic of Tatarstan, by virtue of implementation of their own innovative tourist projects related to the cultural heritage and expansion of priority tourist centers. The entry of 154 from 27 districts of the republic was attracted this year. Sergei Ivanov, the Chair of the State Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan on Tourism, has taken part in the awards ceremony, ‘The past eight years have seen a great variety of projects from all the regions of the republic representing totally different trends. And it is pleasure to witness that their themes and quality keep growing in diversity. Likewise, the interest of participants in the contest is increasing. We can only wish that the entire republic, all those who care for the tourism expansion, would try and think of something new they could create in the field, of how to make a tourist trip to Tatarstan yet more fascinating and spellbinding.’

The “Journey To The Origins” contest was first announced in 2010. The contest’s mission is to attract children and youth to development and implementation of innovative tourist projects in the field of cultural heritage, and to instill a true sense of patriotism by dint of raising awareness among the youth of today about major tourist resources of their native land.  

“DrugMedia”, a Kazan agency that promotes the ‘Visit Tatarstan’ tourist brand in social media, has received Tagline Awards by winning Bronze in the “State in Social Media” nomination.

The members of the awards jury are experts in digital marketing, creative arts, interactive projects, and web-design from Australia, Brazil, United Kingdom, Spain, Israel, China, Netherlands, USA, France, Czech Republic, and Japan.

Tagline Awards is a Russian annual awards for achievements in the digital sphere. It is presented to the best innovative, intriguing, top-quality projects that exhibit high standards of Russian and Russian-speaking production groups, agencies, and in-house teams.

Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, and Kazan comprise top three Russian cities by the amount of hostel booking. Among the foreign leaders are Barcelona, Helsinki, and Prague. 93 per cent of hostel guests travel without children. In 67 of 100 cases, the duration of their stay doesn’t exceed three days.

In the period of January to October 2017, hostels and one-star and two-star hotels have turned out to be the most dynamic segments of the hotel market by amount of booking. As compared with the same period of 2016, the flow of demands on hostels among the clients of OneTwoTrip has exceeded total growth of the booking allocation on 21 per cent, and for one-star and two-star hotels it has reached 37 per cent of increase.

From November 22 to 26, 2017, "The Assembly of Tourist Volunteers of the Republic of Tatarstan" NPO with the support of the State Committee on Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan on the basis of the State Autonomous Institution Volga "Youth Center" conducts a specialized educational shift. 80 students-volunteers studying at the faculties of tourism of higher educational institutions of Kazan (FSBEI HPE "Povolzhskaya State Academy of Physical Education, Sport, and Tourism", FSBEI HE "Kazan National Research Technological University", FSBEI HE "Kazan State Institute of Culture", FSAEI HE "Kazan (Volga region) Federal University", PEI HE "Kazan Innovation University named after V. G. Timiryasov (IEML)", Kazan branch of the Russian International Academy for Tourism, HEI "University of Management" TISBI") take place in the shift.

On December 20, at the Cultural and Educational Center "Ethnomir" (Kaluga region, the village of Petrovo) a roundtable on the topic: "Ethnomir" – a platform for the development of small and medium-sized businesses will be held. We invite all persons concerned to take part. Contacts for more information: rf@ethnomir.ru, +7 (495) 710-73-44. 

The traveler shared his plans. In the near future, he intends to refresh the legendary Great Silk Road as a phenomenon of the world's cultural legacy, having the impact on the development of civilizations. Its northern branch ran through a number of Russian regions. Under the patronage of UNESCO and with the support of the governments of many countries, the legend created by Marco Polo will be updated. This is the idea of a joint international tourist commodity under the Silk Road brand. In the spring of 2018, the automobile column will cross the path from the Pacific to Poland.

Russia has a direct relationship to this ancient route. It should be recalled that in the early Middle Ages the central Silk Road branched out in Merv. One direction went to the Middle East; the second one ran through the territory of today's Kazakhstan, to the lower Volga, where it crossed the Great Volga route, which has a significant role. 

From 9 to 11 November, the delegation of the Republic of Tatarstan took part in the agency event of one of the largest German tour operators "Der Touristik" in Paris. The event took place in the format of an exhibition where representatives of the State Committee on Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan worked at an individual stand, informed visitors of the tourist opportunities of Tatarstan and treated them with the national chak-chak, and presented a new inter-regional route "Palaces and Mosques". The route unites two tourist centers of Russia – St. Petersburg and Kazan, Tatarstan – into one universal commodity.

The Saint-Petersburg Committee for Tourism Development, the State Committee on Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan together with tour operators of both directions developed the route. The seven-day tour is aimed at a foreign tourist and allows to see the most famous sights and objects of world legacy in these two cities for one trip.

The Chak-Chak Museum became the owner of the Grand Prix in two nominated categories at the All-Russian Contest "Tourist Souvenir", which was held in Kirov on November 10-11, 2017.

The chak-chak "Kuchtanach" (a gift) took first place in the "Souvenir of the Tourist Route" nominated category, the restored Tatar decorations - first place in the “Souvenir of the Museum” nominated category, the cards-colorings took the second place in the "Souvenir of the City" nominated category.

The chak-chak of the Chak-Chak Museum received the highest award – Grand Prix in the category Souvenir of the Museum in the middle price category. In the same nominated category, but in the price category "low", souvenir magnets of the Chak-Chak Museum were also honored with the highest award.