New infrastructure, all-season and cross-border tours How will tourism develop in Belarus?

Interest in the tourism potential of Belarus is growing not only among citizens of our country, but also among foreign guests. We have a lot to boast about, but at the same time there is a place to grow. As will develop the tourism sector in Belarus in the near future, in the evening news on ONT told the Director of the National Agency for Tourism Kirill Masharsky.

As Kirill Masharsky noted, tourism develops effectively where there is good state support, there is a private initiative.

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“The government provides a good credit product for the development of tourism potential. This is a loan at 6%, the amount of up to 100 million Belarusian rubles. This is an important element for us to modernize our infrastructure. Not just modernized, but also created a fundamentally new infrastructure that would meet modern realities and be of high quality, he said.

The second element is the transfer of tourism to all-season: tourists come to Belarus not only in summer, but also in winter. We also need to build the necessary infrastructure.

The third element is that we are very interested in developing cross-border tours. We, for example, observe that citizens of China and India travel well to the Russian Federation. We are working very hard to get more Chinese tourists. In this regard, we suggest that our colleagues include Minsk in their tours of the Russian Federation. For example, you can make a tour Minsk – Petersburg – Moscow. Moreover, both Belarus and Russia have a visa-free regime with China, said Kirill Masharsky.

According to him, this issue has already been discussed with the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, the responsible regulator for tourism. The Russian side liked this idea, and Belarus will also move in this direction.

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