holds a ceremonial reception for graduates of departmental universities, presents service weapons and the first service certificates. it is symbolic that the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of the republic of belarus from the nazi invaders, the eightieth anniversary of the formation of the main department of the city executive committee, more than eighty young specialists joined the ranks of the capital’s police. this is not the first time i’ve been to this place; i did a pre-graduation internship for six months, during which i was shown both theoretical and

may the shape of a regular circle, which does not change for a long time. there is a shame that there are so many people on the right from nyabiesa, and there is a lot more than such enchanting lusteraks in belarus.

good evening, the talk show is essentially, today we will talk about how the tourism industry in belarus is doing, about guides and more. our studio has competent people who know absolutely everything about this area. but if you are interested in something, you can become participants in our program, here at the bottom of the screen, qr code. please point it at him screen of your smartphone and ask your questions during the youtube broadcast. well, in the right corner.

i’m deeply mistaken, but it seems to me that to some extent very little attention has been paid to tourism lately. yes, we may continue to go on vacation abroad, ours is the united arab emirates, turkey, egypt, we continue to go to sanatoriums and agricultural estates, but our tourism potential is now being used in cities for russians. i will tell you a story that happened to me quite recently, which, strictly speaking, is against. just started watching

understand how this industry works in our country. on the island of tears, i heard from one guide who worked with the russian delegation that in minsk, in her opinion, there are no normal museums, there are only an art museum and a cat museum. i have a question: who controls our guides, how do they choose those.

some of our locations don’t work 100%, with regards to the troitsky suburb, maybe we don’t use them fully, maybe someone should, for example, write programs in order to... how effective are we? sometimes another site or cluster is used, well, historically it turned out this way, i think dmitry viktorovich will develop the topic more broadly, the fact that the main locations developed naturally, that is, the demand wave of this... demand gave rise to supply, sometimes it went in a slightly different way, when interested specialists or commercial companies creating a new product tried to artificially make it the other way around, layer future demands and prepare, in general, the greater the flow, the higher the demand and, accordingly, better prepared

offers, the more and there are some additional attractions, optional extras from restaurants, additional museums, animation programs.

half are located in so-called apartments or private apartments, then tourists have no problems with 54% or 57, but i am sure that no less internet services are available, yandex taxi, world map, russian language. have fun on their own and walk around our city at their convenience, of course, including booking excursions via the internet, interact directly with guides, that’s what’s fashionable, what’s promoted, what’s branded, that’s what they use, well, that’s what kirill is talking about, that what

’s fashionable and what’s promoted, uh , does not always coincide, as i understand it, with what we really want to show from the best side, from the best side. yes , unfortunately, yes, and this applies not only to belarus, in general, probably, in principle , to our entire planet, because tourists want all the brightest and sometimes even consumer goods, something we would like to sell and show high-quality handmade present, what in our opinion, probably, and i’m not talking about popular print, you ’re being ironic now in vain, popular print is also good, we come, show, we have a slavic bazaar for this, where we can show anything, there are the same...

control texts and technological maps of excursions, there are more than 140 of them, they are with reviews, we also conduct, together with the institute of history, the academy of sciences, monitoring these texts to identify any already accumulated inconsistencies, they wrote in different years , accordingly, we carry out annual work on development of new, modernization of old texts, according to which applicants can pass a professional...

guys, who wants, let me give you a tour of minsk, but i also have an education as a historian, i know how to communicate, wait, wait, no, who cares , who cares about the license, who checks some licenses from tourists, what are you doing, then people come on a tour, and i start showing them the city, i don’t know, a village, a castle , and so on from the point of view from which i ... i consider it necessary, i do not consult with you, neither from the ministry of sports, nor from anyone else, this

is basically the question, what is happening, irina nikolaevna, who now controls our guides, including those who have not been registered, who have licenses, their maybe they are checking that on january 1, 2023 , a new law came into force, which spells out in black and white how the work of guides is carried out. translators into tour guides, and therefore every citizen living in the republic of belarus understands and is interested in this topic, if he suddenly wants to work as a guide, he understands what he brings responsibility, and here the situation is this way, and that it is mandatory to undergo certification, the one who illegally conducts an excursion is doomed to reveal this fact sooner or later.

the most stories on the island of tears, who can complain about this guide, but no one, maybe i’ll agree, because this is really a very important point, throughout the entire twenty-third year , monitoring has actually been carried out and continues to be carried out, they are carried out not only in the city of minsk, they are carried out according to throughout the republic of belarus, every person who is present on the excursion, if he sees any points that raise a question.

such a fairly popular excursion, which 15 years ago in st. petersburg was very well promoted, this, of course, is not what the russian state and the mayor’s office of st. petersburg want to show, but people came and ordered, in general, we may have such a story , well, either but just look at the texts that you wrote, so you can write the original text of the excursion to the ministry of crime.

guarantees us that this person, whom we talked about at the beginning of the program, will say what actually happened, what is in the interests of the state, who controls it, that well, then there is no need to control it when he is a convinced person of ours, a supporter of the belarusian state and knows what

happened here, they use polish or lithuanian stamps in matters of patriotic education of our population. well, here’s one more nuance, what moment, then, is just an example for comparison, as in other states, israel, the state, to unfortunately, well, we know that historically it has always been at war there based on certain historical features, but in israel in israel, here is someone who hung out with israeli tour guides or in israel, communicated, every israeli there was young, was a soldier, and it was not the school that brought him there and not the state, but the family, because there is a clear understanding in israeli society that... “if you don’t go and see what will happen to a jew, if he doesn’t respect his history, what will happen to will happen to them, that’s why today they all, both girls and men, defend their homeland there, yes, how they defend that we won’t discuss this, but this is a fact, in our country, at least every resident of belarus, a young resident of belarus should visit khatyn , in the brest fortress, the museum of the great

patriotic war, at least on one site of our, our, so to speak, homeland, we have enough of those places, and not only not over. when we touch on this topic every time, we talk about that since we are already learning lessons, then by 2020 we will the opponent simply presented a certain certain period of our history, a certain and even movuvali, we will allow them to parasitize on it, this is our history, we must take it away beautifully, we do it, we must take it beautifully, we do it we begin

the most important thing, where the cadres decide everything, from the training of those people who will do this professionally at the school. a very popular destination, grodno, lida, in the lida castle, now there are such tastings, now i’ll tell you again where they go to the brest fortress, of course, look, we we differentiate. well, that is, we should probably differentiate a little between tourists, there are tourists who go to rest specifically, and there are tourists who go for our stories, and if they go to brest, then the brest fortress will a priori

be there, that is, they are one day they visit kozovsky, lord, ruzhany castles, yes, which we have opened, and the first day it always starts in brest from the brest fortress, and then the lamplighter, the soviet one, where they sing and dance, but just like in brestb from the brest fortress, well, this i have a question, well, now i’m already again. look, now i may tell a stupid story, they will start writing me again about how, yes, there is a dictatorship in the country, such leaders, you know, i actually was in one wonderful country called azerbaijan, any trip there, it is in any case somehow touches on the heroic story, i’m stupid, we’re going, for example, to a castle, we stopped in khatyn, it’s like an obligatory story, you can’t buy, for example, a trip to the world without stopping in khatyn. look, i’ll even tell you about polotsk, yes, we are like menchan, well, not only menchan, but from the surrounding area, if we go to polotsk, then st. sophia cathedral begins, efroseny of polotsk, on the way back we stop at

the berezensky nature reserve, and then we have something along the way, khatyn, and we stop in khatyn, so i have this, well, in our company, we have this in the program, that is, we start with history, then we have fun in polotsk in the evening, the brewery there is wonderful, the tastings just go off with a bang, we spend the night , we either have a gazebo. after all, 90% of tour guides are people who communicate with tourists, these are people, firstly, creative, intellectually developed, and most importantly, i am 14 years old. worked as a tour guide, guide, accompanying person, this is someone who loves his country, knows its history and geography, internal desire, whatever you like,

through text to motives, in comparative analysis, even when we take russian or belarusian tourists there over some border, to show that this is how we have it, and we have the best, this is unique, and this is unique, in principle, a person working as a tour guide cannot help but love your homeland, yes, for sure there is.

excursion in the city, the guide must have a sample certificate issued by the national agency with his first name, surname, maybe even some kind of registered number, by which you can, if not catch him by hand, then at least identify him, contact him, and if you like him, then find it on the internet and use its services. ekaterina, how many organized excursions do you conduct with us, for example, over the weekend, it’s easy to understand this flow that comes to us, and if we are talking to you about the season, in this case, it’s summer, which means it’s the season, it can be from three to five excursions per day, for example, and how many people are usually on this excursion, just to understand, it can be individual tourists, for example, one or two people, it could be an organized group, maximum 60-70 people, but what interests visitors again? well, at least in minsk, which is what is most interesting, and you mean the main locations that are of interest, well, let’s say yes, the main locations, that is, they come, you show them what, let’s say, then we’ll probably start just the troitsky

suburb, i would also like to ask a counter question, why did you think that the troitsky suburb is so not in demand ? everywhere, except for the troitsky suburb, in the troitsky suburb, if we now start with just a domestic issue. it’s not in the program to discuss what, where to go in the troitsky subject, then there are such purely narrow professional places, for example, some small museums or even important, very respected museums, but there is nothing to do there except take pictures, and there is a tax office there, which is bad to take pictures in, no questions asked, but in the same upper upper city there are evenings at the town hall , some musical things, many cafes and restaurants, the rakovsky suburb acquired a theater courtyard this year, that is, people can move around.

about different concepts, we are talking about either such a classic sightseeing tour of the city, which does not involve visiting museums, attractions that require the purchase of a ticket to enter, a sightseeing tour of the city should allow you to see exactly the city of minsk, and only then we can always recommend advising our guest on how to organize it correctly? free time, talking about the objects that are located on the territory of the troitsky suburb, after all, although not the most preserved, it is the oldest corner of our city, it has quite a lot of interesting buildings, structures with a very rich history, it’s just possible that you need to talk about this nobody i didn’t tell it nicely, by the way, irin, the question is, mm, such a popular trend in the last few years as author’s tours, that is, a subjective view, but

talented creative ones.

these payments occur through links to the bank, they conduct an excursion, that is, this is real competition for a travel company, but both are tourism businesses, the only question is the means of implementation, someone works with distribution by tour operators and agents, someone with online aggregation , but this question i think that next year we will to seriously discuss already within the framework of the transformation of legal acts, synchronization with the russian federation, because this problem, we have such a big one, may appear, it does not concern

quality now and what we are talking about... it is winning and aggregation is advancing at a powerful pace on the tourism business this is a fact in the russian federation, we need our own aggregator for everything.

so that his excursion would be liked, but speaking in general, then of course these last years, they turned out to be really very significant, important, because we see re-transformation in our country, reorientation, and today it’s so nice to listen to this balm for the soul that there are such large groups of 60 people, and you say they stood with a flag, that is, the group is obvious, but that is, once upon a time this was for us a certain

dream, therefore. we are there to qualitatively organize the scope of this activity, a lot is being done, is being done by the national tourism agency, we also have a website, and where again, if we talk a lot today about organized tourists, then i can say that big percentage, especially in pandemic years, showed interest in individual tours, and people are really interested in audio guides today, just last week we had

free time, that is, the sanatorium offers an excursion to the world in non-swesh and so on. but i wanted to touch on another aspect a little, that we certify tour guides and interpreter guides along specific routes

that can connect some museums; museums already have their own guides who work specifically on the exhibition activities, because in museums there is a practice of changing you...

for each direction or excursion there, well , these are ours, but seryozh, neither in uzbekistan, nor in azerbaijan, nor in the russian federation, such a clear, structured, academic and professional approach the activity of guides is not close to that in belarus, i’ll tell you more, a lot of what

we have, they don’t have even close, how to organize excursions without any questions, right? this is essentially, we are again talking about tourism, the problems of tourism that exist here us now in this industry, i will emphasize once again that, in fact, if a year and a half ago we were talking about how to attract tourists to our country, how great it was that they came, now we are starting to talk about quality, but actually speaking, what kind of guides are there, where are the good excursions, where are the good locations, you said 5 million people come from russia, 5 million, and what is the maximum ideal plan?

it’s difficult to build, but so far we have not had such volumes of load on our infrastructure, and we are certainly happy about this, of course, i want to build more, of course, i want investment, an increase in the number of rooms, quality, the purchase of new equipment, faster, so that young guides who have studied at the national agency will acquire.

maybe it is, well, for example, i want, you know, as everyone says, there, for example, to a sanatorium somewhere near minsk, for two days on a weekend, what, trade union vouchers from workers of the media trade union , unless it’s unlikely, we might have everything there, we sold everything to the russians, but as belarusians, not really, i probably won’t agree, after all, accessibility for our citizens is always a priority, first of all, the availability of health treatment, health improvement for our children, and well... naturally, there is a direction towards the development and

export of medical and health services, not without this , and this helps to develop, the demand has indeed been very high lately and in recent years it has only been increasing for medical and health services, well, there were figures here of 5 million people, well, in our system i can say that with occupancy of the order 80%, and today it is like this, it is somewhere optimal for health resorts, because it is possible to carry out ... reconstruction, renovation of the number of rooms, and naturally change the number of rooms somewhere, if there are any emergency situations with one hundred percent occupancy, this is increasingly difficult, but this is a small period when this occupancy rate is there, this is the summer period , one hundred percent, and this is how it is optimal for us, last year the occupancy rate of the medical and health complex was 84%, in total in the country we have 287 facilities with 60,000 beds, at we provide the sanatorium with an average annual occupancy rate of 80%.

colleagues outlined the situation absolutely clearly, before the pandemic we had come to a balance, the pandemic did something that we are not talking about now, the twenties, twenty-first, first half of the twenty-second year on tourism and the sanatorium and hotel infrastructure suffered a catastrophic blow in terms of losses, material technical base, now

times have changed, how long they will remain is unknown, that’s what they are talking about, accumulate resources in order to carry out renovation, repairs, purchasing new bolniology equipment there, sorting out personnel, this needs to be used, so to answer your primary question, the longer this time lasts, the better we can prepare for times of future uncertainty, by the way, regarding the price, i'm sorry, yes , as for the price, you answer this question yourself, they were helped there, as they say, figuratively speaking, nature, the sea, the beach, people get iodine, nothing more and walls, but people work for us, doctors work.

we are now talking about the fact that people are coming, yes, somewhere we don’t end up in a sanatorium, on the one hand this is criticism, on the other hand it’s joy, because the fact that we don’t end up means we are really doing everything right, so this industry, as far as it is in demand, i want to say, well , firstly, our department, well, when we train specialists, we are still focused on environmental management.

tent, or in a hotel, the next day we have jeeping, dinner, we sleep, we either have a full excursion program in the area, yes, in which, well, we rafted, yes, yes, where we rafted.

resources were distributed, investments were made, they were built, then that’s not all, then no one benefits, well, not no one, but not as it would have been, for example, with the same baikal, yes, i recently had a chance to visit there, and even studying the question there personally, what we were talking about, there are a lot of the same author’s tours, but it would seem that baikal certainly doesn’t need advertising of places, but there is no infrastructure as such, it doesn’t exist, that is, it’s also impossible to put up the same tents there, but.. .

interesting, but it seems to me that this is from cool, wonderful and there is a lot of history about how it doesn’t work the way it should have worked, well, this is my opinion, again, i’m not trying to convince anyone, why is it possible, for example, with some kind of tourist activities, events, etc. , for example, vivobraslov, some rock festivals that are now in the brest region, to attract tourism, how profitable is this, that, for example, in the summer we open these activities so that belarusians come and travel, yes , it's the same story as here on a small scale in minsk.

asks what's new, what is it, let us first, well and efficiently, especially in the year of quality, show what we have, every citizen, as you said today, should visit khatyn, there is a museum of the great patriotic war, that is, what -the places where the brez fortress is, well, i think it’s like for the nation, this is an obligatory story, after all, not all belarusians have been to these places yet, so why open it for them? well, i’m exaggerating now, if there is still something not clear about the event tourism, you named the slavic bazaar, it’s still clear, this is going to happen in the city very

soon, so we do, but alexandria gathers friends every year, but... subjectively, subjectively, yes, it’s clear that people go there, if we are talking about those who leave minsk, then often arriving there during the day to visit the small homeland of the head of state means staying for a concert, and what to face with the fact that, well, of course, in this small agricultural town the hotel is simply even elementary i wish everyone to the slavic bazaar the hotel problem is also not solved, well there the stars are not always located, come tents. that is, somehow think through these events, and for these events, and in some way , maybe, think through the infrastructure or accommodation options, because well, if we are talking about the fact that these are family festivals there after all ... then, yes, people come with families, in cars, to go back after they’ve had a rest, but there really is a serious

question regarding infrastructure and hotels, and we don’t keep silent about it, we always talk about it...

we very strongly suggest that the organizers turn to our international experience of pre-prepared tent camps, only well structured, with water, with biotechnological facilities, with ambulance, with police, with lighting infrastructure, with an additional optional opportunity to earn money on additional food, that is, this is the next step for organizers who

profit from this in order to invest in a competently created one. organized, structured, separate up to 700 more people and these tents with video monitors, catering that comes from a small hotel can

serve for many days.

but what is very important, we need to draw the line at saying that indeed in belarus today all conditions for recreation have been created, it is very important for the state to ensure safety, including from an ideological point of view, which is very important, this is much more important than even from an economic one, and from experience only quality, experience from 3 to 7 years, quality will still be the decisive factor, i i agree, but if we are talking about the quality of the people with whom we travel and those who tell us, then we probably need to start again with ourselves, get to know our... country a little better, so that no one can ever deceive us , and if we meet such people on the island of tears, then we could object to them, well, you know, as they say, knock and they will open the door for you, sometimes you need to talk about this, this is also a certain part

of patriotism, you need to praise your country.