Buryatia to have tourist cluster around Baikal.

ULAN-UDE, June 4 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's Buryatia will have a special
tourist zone, the Baikal Harbour, and the republic's government plans to
organize five satellites around the Harbour - they will be zones with
favourable economic environments for the development of tourism, the
governmental press service said.
The satellites will be located in different municipal territories.
Ulan-Ude is one of them. The capital of Buryatia will become a transport
hub for the Baikal Harbour. Other satellites will be based on the popular
spa resort in the Tunkin Region and on the alpinist routes in the Eastern
Sayans. Two more zones will be located at northern Baikal /lake/ and will
have an eco- and a family hotel with and an aqua park, an ethnic culture
park and a hotel complex at the Tya River.
The formal process to form the five zones is due in June. Municipal
and republic governments will agree on forms and amount of financing, on
the borders of the zones, on the property shares of the municipal
governments, and the republic, and on tax preferences. The local
authorities plan to organise new tourist routes across the republic to
include the Baikal Harbour in order to attract more tourists to Buryatia.
The Baikal Harbour Zone will be organised on the eastern coast of the
Baikal Lake, 150-180 kilometres from Ulan-Ude. Besides the resorts, it
will have mountain skiing and water tourism facilities. Experts say,
Buryatia will welcome up to two million tourists a year. The construction
process has started already.
Buryatia is Russia's republic in eastern Siberia. Its capital and
largest city is Ulan-Ude. Buryatia lies along the eastern side of Lake
Baikal, with a panhandle bordering Mongolia and extending westward beyond
the southern end of the lake. Buryatia consists of a complex of mountain
ranges, plateaus, basins, and river valleys. It includes the Sayan
Mountains in the panhandle, which rise to over 10,000 feet (3,000 metres).
Lake Baikal is situated in south-east Siberia. The
3.15-million-hectars Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and
deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20 percent of the world's
total unfrozen freshwater reserve. Known as the 'Galapagos of Russia', its
age and isolation have produced one of the world's richest and most
unusual freshwater faunas, which is of exceptional value to evolutionary
science.

-0-kar


Delete & Prev | Delete & Next