The Leningrad region is preparing for the winter tourist season

Governor Alexander Drozdenko participated in the meeting of the Government Commission for the Development of Tourism in Russia. It took place in videoconference mode. The preparation of the region for the winter tourist season, the transport accessibility of resorts and the development of infrastructure were discussed, the press service of the Leningrad Region government said.

There are 7 ski resorts in the region, in Vsevolozhsky, Lomonosov and Priozersky districts. They receive tourists from November to April. Drozdenko noted the growing interest in this type of recreation. Over the past season, the three largest resorts (Igora, Okhta Park and Golden Valley) received more than one and a half million people.

Now there are in full swing preparations for a new reception of tourists. Cable cars, ski slopes and artificial snow systems are ready.

New tourist locations are also being created in the region. In New Ladoga will appear

promenade along the beach with observation decks and a pontoon on the Old Ladoga Canal. In Vyborg, the improvement of the Battery Mountain is completed. It will now be possible to climb on a specially built, well-lit staircase. There were walkways, art objects and digital navigation.

Attract visitors to the region and tourist festivals. You can call: “Smell is coming!” in Novaya Ladoga, the first Oleg Day held in Old Ladoga, “From Onega to the Baltic”, “Baltic Rally” and others.

Opportunities to accommodate tourists are expanding. Modular hotel and hotel opened in Kingisepp and Tosnensky districts. It is planned to create 7 campsites near major highways for the development of motor tourism.

It is also important that tour routes are launched together with other regions. Just the other day there was a meeting of the head of the Committee on external relations of the Leningrad region Anastasia Mikhalchenko with a representative of the Vologda region. It is planned to conclude an agency agreement with the cultural and tourist center established there for the development of interregional tourism.

“The Leningrad region is a destination for recreation at any time of the year,” the governor of the Leningrad region summed up. We continue to make it comfortable, interesting and accessible for residents and guests of the region.

Earlier, “MK in Leningrad region” said that the Governor Drozdenko showed a new tourist cluster with a water-thermal complex in the Vsevolozhsky district.