Rostourism announced plans to build a resort - an analogue of Sochi in Dagestan

Market participants are in favor of building a complex on an area of ​​about 200 hectares with hotels for 30,000 rooms, which will require up to 300 billion rubles.and will allow creating an analogue of Sochi with mountain and sea clustersViews of DagestanViews of DagestanViews of DagestanViews of DagestanViews of DagestanViews of DagestanViews of Dagestan

In connection with the steady growth of tourist flow to Dagestan, the federal authorities began to discuss the construction of a new seaside resort on the coast of the Caspian Sea in the region. This was reported to the Kommersant newspaper by sources in the industry and confirmed by the Federal Tourism Agency.

As a source in the tourism market told the newspaper, the project was discussed last week at a meeting on the development of domestic tourism with presidential aide Igor Levitin. According to the interlocutor of the publication, the head of Dagestan Sergey Melikov spoke at the meeting about the availability of a suitable site in the Kayakent region.

Two other Kommersant sources specified that participation in the project of the Tourism.RF corporation and the federal authorities is also being discussed. So far, "these are just outlines," added one of the interlocutors.

Rostourism confirmed to the newspaper that they are working on the creation of a new resort in Dagestan with local authorities. As the representative of the agency noted, the conditions are “favorable for a beach holiday”: a wide sandy strip, a warm sea with a smooth entry into the water, a long season. The resorts existing in Russia are overloaded in the summer season, their infrastructure is outdated, so new locations are being worked out, the Rostourism added.

Alexei Kozhevnikov, Vice-President of Opora Rossii, considers it expedient to implement a large-scale project similar to the resort in Sochi on a plot of about 200 hectares with a total fund of about 30,000 rooms. He estimated the construction budget at $5 billion (more than 295 billion rubles).

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Interest among Russians in tourist trips to Dagestan has been growing since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic . The authorities of the region indicated that 1.085 million travelers arrived in Dagestan in 2021, which is 30% higher than the previous year.

According to Intourist, in June of this year, Dagestan entered the top five most popular domestic destinations. The increase in the popularity of travel to the Caucasian regions was explained there by the launch of charter programs from Moscow to Makhachkala.

At the same time, the tourist flow to Crimea, according to ATOR, decreased by almost 50% following the results of the summer season. This is due to restrictions on flights to the southern regions of Russia, which the Federal Air Transport Agency introduced on February 24, after the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. At the end of July, the head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, called the republic the most affected region in terms of tourism.