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In the State Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan on Tourism was held the meeting with Tatyana Sazhaeva, Director of RSBI “Tourist Center of the Altai Territory”. The meeting was attended by Arthur Abdrashitov, Deputy Chairman of the Committee, Natalia Abramovich, General Director of LLC “Tourist-Info Center of Kazan”, Evgeni Terentyev, Executive Director of Republican Association of Sanatoriums and Resorts “Sanatoriums of Tatarstan”. Within the framework of the meeting was made presentation of the Altai Territory tourism opportunities. There have been discussed issues of transport logistics between the Republic of Tatarstan and the Altai Territory, both sides’ tourism opportunities as regards to sanatorium issues, possible ways of regions’ tourist flow increase

Presentation of tourist opportunities of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as a new tour itinerary “Tatarstan: 1001 Pleasures” was held in the city of Manama, the capital of the Kingdom of Bahrain. The presentation was conducted by Sergey Ivanov, Chairman of the State Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan on Tourism. It shall be recalled that for Gulf countries’ guests have been prepared 6 days and 5 nights, and 3 days and 2 nights’ packages with visiting Kazan Kremlin, Kremlin Embankment, Sviyazhsk Island, SPA- complex, restaurants of local and European cuisine and other leisure facilities. Trip to Veliky Bolgar, Yamashurma Tatar village and shopping around local producers were offered as an option

Today Nowruz holiday will be celebrated in the Bulgarian State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve. At the festival will operate two playgrounds: concert-entertaining “Nawruz Maidany” and cooking “Nowruz Dastarkhany”. This time setting of festive table has been entrusted to students of Spassky Technical Industry Technologies College Food Technology Department. They will regale guests with Tatar and Russian baked foods

A competition has been announced for incorporation in succession pool of the Republic of Tatarstan State Committee on Tourism, Tourist Industry Development Department for major job family of “specialists” category (1 unit). Documents acceptance for participation in the competition is carried out from March 28 till April 17, 2017 during working time of the Republic of Tatarstan State Committee on Tourism at the following address: Kazan, Maxim Gorky str., 19 bld., room # 2.  Information on upcoming competition is available on the official website of the Republic of Tatarstan State Committee on Tourism in the section “Human resources management”. For more information, please call: (843) 222-90-29, 222-90-27

Travel agents of Russian Information Center in India stay in Tatarstan, as a part of advertising and information tour. They have already had an opportunity to get acquainted with Kazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve, visited Sviyazhsk Island, admired evening city view from the Ferris wheel in “Riviera”, and also participated in “India Friendly” program presentation. The project mission is creation of comfortable environment in Russia for those Indian tourists who having travelled outside their country suffer number of problems and inconveniences due to national and culture sensitivities, and traditions of everyday life. Today the guests are on visit to Veliky Bolgar city and tomorrow in the State Committee on tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan will be conducted a meeting with Sergey Ivanov, Chairman of the Committee.

Sergey Ivanov, Chairman of Tatarstan State Committee on Tourism made presentation of the Republic tourist potential at the 6th session of Dialogue and Forum “The United Russia Party” -Communist Party of China”. He spoke about major tourist attractions of Tatarstan, such as Kazan Kremlin and Veliky Bolgar city, objects that might be of interest to China guests -Lenin Museum and Kazan University, and future major sporting events, etc. He also noted Tatarstan efforts for attracting tourists from China, such as launching of the new charter flight Urumqi-Kazan-Urumqi, successful implementation of China Friendly project and development of special offerings. All of this has allowed increasing number of Chinese tourists by 30%.

At the end of his speech, Sergei Ivanov challenged Chinese companies to invest in Republic of Tatarstan tourism industry.

Aigul Balahontseva, Head of Tourist Product Promotion Department of the State Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan for Tourism, presented Tatarstan at “See who we are!!” online exhibition. She spoke about the Republic in general, about transport accessibility and peculiarities of the region, excursion routes, conditions for business trips, and also about event tourism. All webinars dedicated to tourism in Tatarstan will be held today and over 4000 people have already entered the participants’ list. In addition Julia Talanova, Director of LLC Travel & Voc, Daria Antonova, Head of “Persona Grata” Company Inbound Tourism Department, Olga Ikun, Managing Partner of Group of Companies “Kazan Travels Bureau” and Marat Kalimullin, General Manager of the “Nogai” Hotel Complex will appear as experts. They will speak about new and existing programs for tourists and many other things.

Tomorrow at “Relita” hotel, at 3 pm will be held presentation of “India Friendly” program. “India Friendly” project mission is creation of comfortable environment in Russia for those Indian tourists who having travelled outside their country suffer number of problems and inconveniences due to national and culture sensitivities, and traditions of everyday life. Two Tatarstan hotels “Relita” and “Korston” have already become participants of the program.

Kazan entered top three most popular Russian cities for traveling on May holidays. The top ten cities are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Vologda, Pskov, Veliky Novgorod, Sergiev Posad and Vyborg. According to RoomGuru.ru service data, the tourists are booking accommodation for May holidays in Kazan for three nights on an average and will spend 3 thousand rubles per day. The rating is based on hotel and apartment booking information from April 29 to May 10, 2017. There has been noted that in 2017 the number of trips in Russia during holidays increased by 15% as compared to the last year.

The World Water Day will be celebrated on March 18 and 19 in the Museum of Natural History of Tatarstan. What does one meet in everyday life and in the absence of which it is impossible to live? Of course it’s water. We invite you to learn more about water, get acquainted with its amazing properties, participate in water express analysis and try on diving equipment.