© скриншот с сайта TOMSK, Mar 13 – RIA Tomsk. The information portal of the "Golden Ring of Siberia" project of the Tomsk branch of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) won the All-Russian competition "The Best Tourist Portal – 2018", the executive director of the division Yulia Kalyuzhnaya told RIA Tomsk on Wednesday.
Earlier it was reported that the Tomsk branch of the
Russian Geographical Society in 2018 won a Grant of the President of the
Russian Federation worth 6 million rubles to develop a part of the regional
route in the Tomsk region the “Golden Ring of Siberia”. The result of the work
should be a tourist route with convenient transport logistics between the
regions of Siberia. The project also included the creation of a website in
three languages.
© РИА Томск. Таисия Воронцова
According to the interlocutor, the information
portal "Golden Ring of Siberia" was officially launched in January 2019. A
large team of professionals worked on its creation for about a year. The site
has been translated into English and Chinese. The portal contains information
about the route, logistics and those facilities which tourists will visit
within the framework of the "Golden Ring of Siberia" project.
"Victory in the All-Russian competition "The
Best Tourist Portal - 2018", which was held within the framework of the
international tourist exhibition "Intourmarket – 2019", for us is the
first big recognition of our work. It is an approval of our activity,
confirmation that we are working in the right direction", – Kalyuzhnaya
noted.
She added that by the end of 2019, the first
exploratory tour on the branch of the route is planned, and the first group of
tourists will go on it in 2020.
According to data from the "Intourmarket"
website, "The Best Tourist Portal" – is a large-scale competition of
projects in the field of creation, development and promotion of tourist web
portals. Conducted since 2016.