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voronovich irina nikolaevna director of the department of tourism ministry of sports and tourism of the republic of belarus would you like to talk today about such an area as tourism? ah, because ah, there is not a single person who would not want to rest sooner or later, and each of us, even by the end of the week, understands that rest is needed and a reboot is needed. and most importantly, in on the eve of the summer season, and the ministry of sports tourism department of tourism national tourism agency offers e, take advantage of our opportunities, and plan your vacation and spend a wonderful weekend and your vacation.

hello, you are watching the program of distortions be silent in the studio of victoria popova and tatyana shcherbina and irina voronovich is our guest today, good afternoon. good afternoon. hello irina, on the threshold of summer, it’s time for mass vacations, some of my friends decided to relax in belarus this year in the summer, and suddenly it turned out with surprise that it turns out that it is almost impossible to book places in our most popular health resorts. everything is sold out. can you explain to whom this means what it says that our health resorts have been excavated, indeed, they are in demand and today we are talking about the fact that sanatorium treatment is one of the types of tourism that has established itself as one of the most successful indeed. a lot of foreigners come to us. and even before the pandemic in the nineteenth year, of course, and the number foreign tourists prevailed on

our belarusian tourists. and today we understand that time. we are already returning to normal life about the pandemic and the coronavirus , we talk less and tourists are no longer afraid to travel. today we are talking about the fact that a huge number of tourists from the russian federation are indeed, and booking a hotel in a year for six months, ahead of hotels and sanatorium-resort institutions, so really, if you want to relax today in june or july or in august in some of the sanatoriums, but it will be enough it's hard to find a place for yourself, because, uh, when communicating with our tourists and foreigners , they often say that they have been coming here for decades. this is not the first time, not the second, that's why people are walking along such a beautiful path. but in general, they return to us, and this cannot but rejoice us, because it is always a pleasure for us

to meet foreign tourists. and, of course, we care about belarusians too. rest in their health resorts. moreover, we see what is happening. uh, changing the reorientation of tourism and many belarusians, they really prefer to stay in their country today for us for belarusian tourists, but there are some quotas being introduced there, maybe, yes, what, that’s some percentage reserved specifically for belarusian citizens from belarusians, of course, there are advantages, even if we we are talking about the trade union line, because and in every organization you can, and again , get some kind of discount so that you can relax with anatomy, and uh, there are sanatoriums that are uh at a cost, and a little more expensive is the middle category, so today if a belarusian will want to relax in his country, he will be able to find a place, by the way, the popularity of foreigners suggests that belarusians have not discovered everything for themselves, and the advantages of such a view as sanatorium i still hear from

my friends that this is something for grandmothers anyway. prickly, somehow we sway more slowly than the same russians who really come here from year to year. there are even such cases twice a year. but do you think it's popularity. what is the reason for our sanatoriums - this is the price quality. perhaps i would even raised the issue. uh, the twentieth year, when we really found ourselves, uh, in that, uh state, when we can relax in our own country and people began to discover the sanatorium from the other side, because in fact the sanatorium has always been associated. that's purely, you need to go on the third day of the week, but improve your health and so on. and from the twentieth year, sanatoriums began to make programs that, for example, a weekend tour or some kind of spa relaxation procedures, and so on and so forth and procedures, which, for example, recovery after the code.

this is not necessary, the sanatorium, which , in general, as escaped there during the soviet era, therefore today the sanatorium is such, and the rest is of a very high level, but in terms of rest. if, for example, rice is used to all inclusive all inclusive, then this is exactly that vacation in our country. you come and you really get five meals a day and there are some relaxation procedures, walks, rest, and here it is very important to note that tour operators and guides, but also work together with sanatoriums and in their free time there are other tours. uh, covering the territory where the sanatorium is located, these can be ecological walks. and if these are some iconic religious places, you can also go along a religious route and visit some iconic places of a cultural or patriotic nature, so today a sanatorium is a

place where you can stay and get a full range of everyone and add that in oni also began to appear. we have any titox nutrition programs, where you can choose a diet differently than it was table number six, but this indeed, a buffet selected according to yours, completely according to your diet , the sanatoriums themselves, probably, began to develop. here in this direction. yes, that is, of course, they are interested in tourists coming, and i already said today that there are sanatoriums of different levels and categories, where the cost is sufficient. eh, high and, probably, russians in this regard, but they come very often, because for them, maybe, this is not quite such a high cost. they buy it all once, but this there will be the first comment, under our conversation with you, but, because the price still scares belarusians away. the price is really high. there is competition here. there is a competition question of competition.

there is an opportunity to eat the possibilities of those services, and because the equipment that is now in sanatoriums is also, uh, expensive and of high quality, for some reason we don’t feel sorry for throwing a few thousand dollars abroad, but here in belarus it seems to us that everything should be free buffet. well, okay, that doesn't happen. well i probably would she also noted the fact that people, and having started traveling around belarus and there is no word of mouth yet, no one has canceled. if you personally have not been to a sanatorium, but your colleagues and relatives, and no one complains. these are necessarily very high reviews. and i really want to go and try it myself, and, probably , at least once you need to try it, because if experience shows that foreign tourists have been coming for decades and definitely belarusians who went to our sanatorium, they will want to come back. if not in this one, then another, because there are different

directions. uh, well, besides the sanatorium resort, uh, tourism. uh, there is also medical tourism, how popular it is and who, and most often, uh , really medical tourism comes to us, it also occupied a certain niche and there is a certain direction, and again it is. uh, such a criterion as quality and cost and neighboring countries. first of all, countries. neighbors, of course, come to us and these are different medical areas, in which, in general, people go and improve theirs too proves that the quality of belarusian medicine is at the level. yes, since people from abroad come to us for this very purpose, i can say when we leave for the exhibition. e to other countries. that is, it is a traditional annual there are exhibitions that take place. uh, in some countries and in our country there was an exhibition of recreation quite recently, and people are interested in us. that is, they are already specifically

asking that there is no need to even make any kind of advertising, because medical tourism is real. ah, indeed, people, probably, also medicine will know. in which country where which direction is better developed and people really come to us. well, you will bring any medical center in minsk for a fee and you will meet all nationalities of people there at the reception. so it's better to really advertise the last uh, 3 years. you yourself said for our tourism industry, the pandemic and sanctions have been simple with it . do you think in such conditions, we have time to reorient ourselves. well, to answer the challenges of the time. you know these last three years are such fundamental e years that have become the basis for what is happening now and in which direction we are moving and working. and for these 3 years. indeed, a lot has been done in terms of reshaping the reformatting

of work, primarily domestic tourism. and how did we understand that we closed it abroad. and no, not a single person who would not need a rest sooner or later each of us , at least on the weekend, go somewhere, even to the dacha leaving and returning. you understand that you , uh, come back a completely different person. and here since the twentieth year. we have worked very closely with public associations, travel agencies and international bodies. and we have a law on tourism. e new, where amendments were made due to the fact that in the twentieth year he encountered serious problems, and on the return of tourists from abroad, therefore, the law was already amended, and adjusted. these are the problems that all happened the day before. and here, uh, the decree has also undergone

changes in baggregorism. and we have written a new strategy. the state program and strategy for the development of tourism, that is, we understand what is needed, and put emphasis on domestic tourism. in general, in the first place. all this was laid down by fundamental documents, because this is also financing. and now we are moving in this direction, because these documents are such a base. one day. today we are squeezing everything out of the tourism industry that is possible or it still has potential, but there is potential, i have always said that changes are not one day, not one week and not a single month and today we clearly understand everything, whether you work in tourism, or they work, what problems there are, but because each of us faces these problems. these are infrastructure issues. uh-huh and of course, here, uh, there are also certain, but

plans. uh, there are already certain results, but the plans can be introduced on the basis, that is, those that can be voiced is to increase the hotel fund, for example, in cities there is no secret here. it's all in the public domain. this is the third sub-program of the state program, belarus hospitably. first of all, infrastructure is the renewal of e-hotel complexes. these are certain areas. er, roads that need to be repaired, because tourists during the pandemic began to travel individually. it's necessary. uh, some kind of uh parking lot where they can fit buses compactly is gas stations and uh, well , i think there are problems. well, if we are talking about a point where a person needs to rest, uh, have a bite to eat yes, absolutely everything,

therefore, gas stations are not in the sense that they do not exist nowhere. and from refueling. and the question of the accompanying sanitary zones and so on, because when a bus arrives with tourists in the amount of 50 people, otherwise all these conditions must certainly meet so that the bus does not stand for an hour and does not wait. eh, when people manage to do everything and can do it, so the work here depends on each region and the tasks are at the level of local authorities. and today this work is in progress and you can see and feel it for yourself, but i will repeat once again that you can do it quickly program up to a year. yes, this is belarus hospitable until the twenty-fifth year, but all other related infrastructure issues. they do not have to be in this program. they are still going on in

other states and in parallel, as well. because infrastructure is the area that, but in general, is always around us and everywhere, but we are counting on domestic tourism more or on entry, in the nearest in the future , there until the twenty-fifth year of the same, and we are counting on us would very much like to foreign tourists came to us, but this does not replace what we do not want internally, yes, and our primary task of the department of tourism and the national tourism agency is domestic tourism, but i just want to note that it is important and for the development of domestic tourism, foreign tourists, because meeting people from other countries is also of interest to the belarusians themselves . of course, i wanted to make a remark to your speech, which is really. i notice on all sorts of e

coasts, so to speak, very narrow equipped tourists right to the teeth. they already have everything there from chairs to tables and directly upholstered furniture, inflatable on these coasts, but no, but let's say, beaches. oh well, this, too, can be done by them, so that it is on such lakes, but equipped parking lots on them. no, that is, it's all some kind of wild. beaches. that is, people are ready. yes, there are 2-3 days to go there, well , cut through the mice yourself. yes, you know, that one is also very interesting, because it's really very comfortable to come. eh, on the beach where everything is. we have such beaches, but maybe there is no one in grodno. hello there is, maybe, but not in that quantity, and again, not everyone knows about these beaches. here our task is to present this information so that people can easily recognize it, but there is also a second side. uh, for

the second year in a row, they call us and ask where in which place you can relax. although you understand with tents, that is, people traveled to egypt for many years to turkey, where all inclusive rested, and today they understand that rest e in your own country and plunge into nature. that's how we were in childhood, somewhere in the tents there were some camps. here again, this demand appears, i will go far on the dubrovsky reservoir. it's not quite close 15 km. there are whole ones from minsk. so to speak, the coast is full of tents in summer. that is, there is already a community of wells. you understand that it is. it's also interesting and, uh, it's important that every uh consumer has them, they have to ask you for permission, or they just call and ask, where can i go, and i focus on the fact that our belarusians are little informed, they travel little, uh, or travel

in this regard. they, for example, come here, here is sunday. and where to? you can go and it pleases that people are not shy, they call and ask, advise here where for example, you can relax from the floor. well, look, let's say the website of the national tourism agency has a lot of useful information for tourists. e domestic yes, and for those who come to us, that is, there are videos one day in the myadel district in miory on the august channel, what to see in the volkovysk district , that is, work is underway, but youtube channel uh, victoria and i were surprised, moreover, well, not very positive, uh, there are a lot of videos on the side. it's there, i don't know, it's a very small part of what is there, well , views, well, 104 views 69 somewhere around 33 89, 62. well, 172 in the pripyat safari park. and why is there such a low interest? and you know, we

work through several channels of the national tourism agency and conditionally do weekly monitoring as well. uh, what channels better, they come in and we have recently seen that more relevant instagram tiktok and so on. this may be due to the fact that somehow, if we are talking about venues, then, probably, completely different leaders become leaders today. but of course, we are interested in people watching, and we post it and we are sure that it benefits someone, because, for example, on youtube, we post a lot of information for guides, and preparing training for some technologies and methodologies and er, tour guides already being a tour of fashion or only deciding to become tour guides. in principle, these main points of self-study can take place. and in general, go to us

for these largely willing, by the way guides. and you know, yes, in recent times , yes, and uh, somewhere, probably, uh. then these should rise, and for each year and now , as of the month of april, we already have our indicator, which in the twenty-third year, in general, they did it, and that's it. ah, the month of may. i think people are interested in it because it's a job for people. and who goes to the guides, these are more young people, or already people with experience are different, completely different people. and each tour guide has its own zest with charisma and its own interest and uh, here uh from this year. here, thanks to changes in the law, and there is a register of guides and a person or group. choose your tour. here you can

choose just by interest and eat. those guides who are on a specific route are attested and, of course, this is love for that piece of land, uh, territory, uh, to, which is served for uh, appeared and the proposal, so to speak. this same fest of tour guides has begun. yes, all this movement , when any citizen of a city or some locality could conduct a tour for one day, then he got a taste and groups came to him and this whole niche developed. well , just how difficult. what professional requirements should be for the guide, that is, he should be a teacher of historical education. maybe i want to say, the first thing is love for people, because people of different professions, ages, temperamental and so on, come to the tour, therefore, if a person loves people, and uh, he appreciates, uh, respects his

history, because the excursion. first of all, yes. some historical facts and they know them and, uh, please, he can come to us for certification of a person with a higher education - this is a prerequisite. only higher education higher education. yes, but it is not so simple, because we also have certain conditions for to become it you need to pass the test testing includes a number of different disciplines and geography, history and culture and cultural studies and pedagogy and methodology. and after that, when a person successfully passes the certification , he passes. here is the testing. he goes to the second stage. this is precisely the protection of the control text, according to which it will work. i liked the answer love for people, and then 88 control ones and all the guide. while you are thinking about this information, we will interrupt for a while, i remind you, we have telegram

channel. say don't be silent. subscribe ask questions and suggest guests. we are in touch. i'm on the air again, tell the program, don't be silent. and today our guest is the director of the tourism department of the ministry of sports and tourism. irina voronovich, irina well, just the other day, a meeting of tour operator companies in belarus and the samara region of the russian federation and vladimir region was held at the ministry of sports and tourism, as it is written on the website of the tourism agency, as a result of the meeting , they agreed to conduct information tours. well, that is to say about organized tours to samara from belarus and vice versa from e, it to belarus, we can not soon. in general, this is a long song, no long process, indeed, work has been carried out with the regions of the russian federation for 22 years.

e. we have 30 russian regions, in general, in cooperation with us from the department with the national agency, but indeed the other day we met with vladimir the samara region is actively working, and these are informational or study tours. they often take place with us and we conduct these tours. and it's very important. why because these tours are attended by operators, and tourist and media. e, in order to show the route, e logistics, and convenience , e, hotels of the sanatorium, and they could already offer directly to the residents of the samara region, vladimirskaya kaluga well , we are working with many regions and already after this information leaves, of course, people receive and come to us, but in your opinion. which of the russian regions

is by far the most ready. let's say. so the reception of tourists from belarus is traditionally belarusians love, st. petersburg to moscow yes, probably yes, then that e someone once, maybe wanted to, but didn’t get there, i don’t do it. this is now, because it became possible after the opening of borders and today it is possible both by car, by plane and by train. it is very important that there are already direct flights with the regions with which we meet. e there to nizhny novgorod to yekaterinburg, because it is also interesting, and the culture is ancient. these are historical facts. we can already fly to baikal or not through a transfer through moscow, but i want to note that the russian side is interested. they are not very actively working on, but the regions that could open up new directions. i think in

the future other regions will be opened for us with the use of air travel. well, as for belarus and routes in belarus. but besides those who have become? already traditional points of the world nesvizh lida da lida castle appear and new ones are gaining. uh, popularity, for example, the pavlovsky palace in kosovo, but you understand the problem is that, let's say, before the same kosovo castle, uh, palace to get to it, well, it’s not so easy for an ordinary tourist, that is, either by private car or as part of an organized group. somehow this question decides that there is a minibus. well, there is such a question, but i can tell you. uh what hmm to that end we understand that there is such a problem. eh, but here, again, the work is probably joint with both the regions and local, but with the executive bodies. a should be uh, in the direction in this uh , a router was developed on the website of the national tourism agency, uh,

because we saw that individual tours begin to predominate over the organized. and for this purpose. this router was created, that is, a person. and he chooses the point where he wants to go, or maybe the type of tourism and, accordingly, the dates are indicated and the router shows where the railway station is from. you can get there, to baranovichi , for example, from baranovichi there by minibus, that is, the logistics itself, uh, jumps out and then the person is oriented, but for an experienced tourist. yes, in general, already azbuka yes, look for when to get there and at some time. i remember there were exactly the same arrows in the address is not fresh. and now look how minibuses every hour, different companies also compete with each other. well, that is, it should connect and work together. and i think that little by little it will all get better. uh, because again we return to the fact that

the belarusians began mass travel, even last year we saw that everything is rivers, lakes and possible territories. where you can relax and museums belovezhskaya pushcha and imperfect to get there countries yes, well, tourist countries, to get there on the same eiffel tower or in pisa is the queue. just yes, the palace we stood for several hours, of course, that's why people travel. this makes it possible to realize that we need to work more actively and improve these conditions in the grotno region, another identical tourist site has appeared. let's watch the video of our colleagues from the news theory agency in the grodno region, another sign appeared in the tourist site, the first

stage of the reconstruction of the palace park was completed complex, svyatsk, the palace was built at the end of the 18th century according to the project of the famous italian architect giuseppe while it resembles the french versailles in soviet times. there was a sanatorium here, then the building was empty for a long time. the restoration of the architectural gem began in 2017. funds were allocated from the state investment program. representatives of business also made their contribution to the president's fund for the support of culture. today, with vyatsk, a multifunctional complex with hotel rooms with central halls for holding exhibitions and presentations are already included in some kind of tourist we have been waiting for a very long time and even in the stages of reconstruction. it was already on. e in the route, but the tourists were transported, because it was partially something you could already view the territory itself, because it is a very beautiful park. you can just walk there . and it is a great pride that already in the season in the summer of 23 years. in general, our tourists

will be able to come more smoothly. that's what's there, in addition to taking a walk in the park, walking around the palace. this is actually a complex and is gallery. i really don’t know if they have put these pictures already or not? well , at least it was supposed to be a hotel complex. yes, there is a whole, uh, direction, where, in general, the rooms are located and, most importantly , uh, which i also noted for myself then, and rooms, again, of different uh, price categories and uh rooms for inclusive tourism are provided for people with disabilities , because these are already certain conditions and certainly an elevator on which a person can climb the same project, 21. yes, this is a project that, uh, envisaged very important nuances for uh, travelers and certainly. this is the kitchen and i remember at that time there was also a brewery nearby, which was also the only one in

belarus using some technologies. but, well, of course, living in such a wonderful hotel. you are traveling around the city. the area near the augustow canal on the augustow canal you can spend one day on the bike path, which is equipped just coldly wrong. we now i will throw the leaves and go to the garden and kayak alloys, because it is indescribable beautiful. and honestly , individual tourist routes are being developed at all. here, for example, we, uh, want to get together as a family and go. here in the same svyatsk, for example, can i go somewhere to be advised to pick up a guide route and, uh, this is what makes an individual tour different , what do you do, you can find guides on the website of the national agency in the register, because there are uh, contacts. can you contact and regarding the itinerary? i

said today you choose a date point and you, please, everything is popping up. that is, there is no such thing as me. and if you want to contact an agency, then this is already a tour for two to three people, that is, this travel company completely composes this tour and provides a guide and you travel, but for this you already pay the travel company for work, but i would also like to add here that we will be holding a very , uh, serious event for the second time. this action is called in android and what exactly is from the prince, it will be held from june 5, to 11. this is a kind of action of open days. today we have already mentioned the fest of guides with you. well, it’s only relatively the guides on the tour were free, that is, they declared at the museum where they could sit for a free tour, and we also had open days of agro-gardens,

when people could visit some kind of farmstead game and see what it was all about surprises to then plan your holiday or there somewhere. the whole school, so this action will be held this year for the second time and various institutions, sports, industrial tourism, religious tourism have already been announced here, and that is, temples and industrial enterprises and cultural museums open their doors. eh, our e and ecological destinations and reserves, and during the week on the website of the national tourism agency you can choose the object will be the tone, the information is already there, from what time to what time or some kind of animation program or some kind of gastronomic tourism tasting. that is, you choose e, make an application and come. uh, that is, armored visit for free. yes, you have a great choice. yes, well, here here it is important to say that in advance to register for

a visit to this object, but not to be, and then there is a pandemonium or not rendered in wrongly there conditional centralized entry. as they say, it is clear, but you have already mentioned agro-ecotourism several times that there have been some changes in the law. yes, after the twentieth year, and this industry, it is still developing, it is impossible to understand it, that is, for some time. we have been very active in publicity. yes, in the media this kind of recreation. and now it seems to me that somehow all this was hlaili along the way. you know active sensations. it's on my e account that this kind of tourism is a game for tourism, it does not need to be advertised. you already know everything and know it all over the world and in the twentieth year. uh, the world yunto organization, but planned to hold a large form of rural tourism in our country, because we hmm, i will not hesitate to say leaders in this direction agro ecotourism, and in our country, uh, it is developing at a very high level and many

countries. we learn and ask to share experience, including that of the russian federation, because the conditions that were created under the auspices of the president, they do not exist in any other country, and due to the fact that the president’s personal attention was paid to this type of tourism, we have such , really positive results, and therefore there was a lot of talk about this in the form of tourism, and i believe that it does not need advertising, because even the number of farmsteads that we currently have with the services that they offer. uh, one another they surprise better, and they are not repeatable, because agro-ecotourism is to love and live these, and what a task it was to revive the life of the population, to revive those corners of our belarus that are somewhere

far away and forgotten. and of course you don't have to. what were the questions here? do not confuse farmsteads and uh, where there was a substitution of concepts, uh, hotel business and even casinos. yes , of course, they are completely different things. and here, of course, people who are really engaged in aggregatourism in the countryside, but grow natural products, cook. uh, get somewhere and antiquity. there are traditions, local dishes. it's every never-ending. here are our colleagues in the media, they are doing a whole project and for years they have been traveling in different ways, this is agro-ecotourism. and when this business is put on stream, to hold a wedding, no one cancels the wedding today, too, it is very beautiful and interesting to hold in the garden. but if it's like. business is already, right? this is

completely different, but from july 1 this year , the tax on professional income will become mandatory for artisans and individuals persons conducting activities in the field of agro-ecotourism. won't this scare away those who are engaged in such activities, but the fact is that today we know that a hmm agroestate owners of an agroestate pay one basic amount per month. and these conditions will remain for urban gardens. and those that are on the lists by decision of local authorities are territories that, in general, are possible for conducting this type of activity for community gardens. it, and if the farmstead is located, for example, next to the city of miss there is 2 km 3 km, and then the questions are whether it is a farmstead, or is it already an activity with a professional income, that is, no one will close it, please, it exists, but