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Azerbaijan Asks Travelers to “Take Another Look” at WTM

2018-11-05 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Azerbaijan Tourism Board

This week at the World Travel Market (WTM) the Azerbaijan Tourism Board has launched its ‘Take another look’ marketing campaign as part of a new strategy to rebrand the country and to increase inbound tourism by 2023.

Tags: Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan Tourism Board, Azerbaijan travel, Caucasus, Caucasus tourism, ski tourism, WTM, WTM London, WTM London 2018

Dagestan to Open New Ethnocultural Routes

2017-01-04 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Sulak Canyon

New for 2017, there will be added ethno-cultural routes in Dagestan and Azerbaijan in an international project of the countries of the CIS and China’s “New Silk Road” initiative. In a promising news tourism industry development, Dagestan is planning to open the routes and stays in accordance with the travelogues of the famous French novelist Alexander Dumas.

Tags: Alexander Dumas, Balkhar, Caucasus, Dagestan, Kubachi, Ramazan Abdulatipov, Samur Liana, Untsukul

North Caucasus in the spotlight at ITM 2016

2016-03-28 by Phil Butler

For the first time ever, the regions of North Caucasian Federal district were United on a single exhibition stand at Intourmarket (ITM) 2016.

Tags: Caucasus, Great silk road, Intourmarket 2016, Oleg Gorchev, Russia tourism, Russian Caucasus

Caucasus Ski Resort ‘Arkhyz’ Offers New Ski Instructor Courses

2016-02-11 by Aleksandr Shatskih

In ski news from Caucasus ski resort ‘Arkhyz’, instructors in alpine skiing and snowboarding, and JSC ‘Resorts of the North Caucasus’ will hold certification courses for training courses entry-level instructors ( ‘C’ category) and instructors average level of training (category ‘B’ ), for the upcoming 2016/17 season.

Tags: Arkhyz, Arkhyz resort, Caucasus, Northern Caucasus, Russia skiing, ski instruction, skiing, snowboarding, winter attractions

Russia’s Krasnodar Krai Region Gets Family Ski Resorts Too

2013-06-04 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Lagonaki resort

According to a recent report via Otdyh.Na Kubani.ru, the first skiing village of a larger complex of resorts will come to the Lago-Naki area of the Azish in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai region. The ski area, capable of entertaining 5,000 enthusiasts, will eventually offer more than 35 ski tracks and black tracks for downhill experts.

Tags: Caucasus, Krasnodar Krai, Lago-Naki, North Caucasus, Russia skiing, ski resorts, skiing, Sochi

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