Tomorrow tourist

How to make the island a tempting Traveller
To attract tourists to the island, to increase tax revenues from the hospitality industry - ways to meet these challenges, discussing the Congress
"Sakhalin - Kurils: Travel & Tourism", which opened yesterday in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
Forum brought together representatives of municipal and regional administration, travel agencies and hotel complex.
Potential natural and climatic, ethnographic, cultural and historical area with enormous ... Its geographical position also advantageous in this regard: it next to the two largest international tourism markets - North America and Southeast Asia. But this potential is yet weak. Field took a 3-4 - DFO place in the levels of development Tourist Industry. The main causes of underdevelopment: natural conditions requiring high cost, confusing coil transport problems. The initiative in addressing these issues assume a regional power.
In his speech at the forum of the First Vice-Governor Konstantin Stroganov noted that the regional administration is interested in the development of the tourism industry. Island authorities provide all possible facilitation Sakhalin organizations for their advancement on the domestic and external markets of tourism services. But the limiting factor in the development of tourism in the islands, according to the first vice-governor, is still low level of service, lack of hotels in the area, a sufficient number of paved roads and comfortable transport.
-- Now in the field finishes work on the Concept for the development of Tourist Industry, - added Natalia Ivanova, head of department for the development of tourism -
small committee of international, foreign economic and interregional connections of the Sakhalin region. -- This document, in particular, provides training and education of highly skilled professionals who will be employed in the hotel business in a number of other related sectors of the tourism industry.

Competent
Dmitry Sangadeev,
Vice Mayor of the South Sakhalin:
-- In order to make our city attractive to visitors, in the regional centre established a strong material base. We have 62 tourist companies, 30 hotels, in which more than two thousand beds, catering businesses, where
night can feed several thousand guests… This year we are first among the tourist areas of the city held a competition "Gostepriimny Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk" - awarded Best Travel Agents and managers who were able to organize sightseeing routes for residents and visitors to the city.