The Don Tourism

The Don Tourism

       Rostov region has all the necessary resources for internal and external tourism development. The contemporary region is characterized by:

• high tempos of economic development;
• investment appeal;
• annually increasing population income;
• political and social stability;
• favorable geopolitical and geographical location;
• high transport accessibility;
• big number of Russian and international events;
• modern business infrastructure;
• entertainment industry;
• favorable nature and climate conditions;
• rich historical and cultural heritage;
• centuries-old hospitality traditions;
• availability of educational institutions for tour industry professionals.

        The comparative tourism products analyses of the Southern Federal regions, carried out by the Center of strategic developments “North-West” (Saint-Petersburg) and the National agency of direct investments (Moscow), requested by the Administration of Rostov region for design of Rostov region social economic development strategy up to 2020, showed, that the current tour product prevailing in Rostov region is the organization of various event-trigger, congress and expositional arrangements. The congress expositional profile of the region is also proved by the high investment activity in the sphere: realization of perspective territories development projects, business-centers, hotel complexes and congress-hotel construction investment projects. Therefore, the majority of large business centers of Rostov region specialize in providing business tourism services.
The medium-term perspective of the region has premises for further business and entertainment tourism development. This is conditioned by high tempos of economic development, presence of large successful companies and administrative structures (initiating the majority of the carried-out events), and the decision of arranging the gambling zone at the territory of Scherbinovsky district of Krasnodar region and Azov district of Rostov region.

       The existing business tourism is supplemented by the development of informational and recreation tourism, providing in the long-term perspective the complex tourist product, competitive at the Russian and international markets. This is conditioned by favorable climate conditions, availability of water and balneological resources, high landscape recreation potential and the peculiarities of historic cultural heritage, presence of unique museum complexes of international significance. The Rostov region territory has monuments from the Paleolithic epoch till present (by January 1, 2005, under state preservation are 9295 architectural, historical and cultural monuments, including 8066 monuments of federal significance) and historic cultural preserve museums, forming the pivot of the excursion tourism.

       The main tourist centers of Rostov region are the towns of Rostov-on-Don, Azov, Novocherkassk, Taganrog; villages Starocherkasskaya (Aksay district), Veshenskaya (Sholokhov district), Razdorskaya (Ust-Donetsk district), farmstead Nedvigovka (Myasnikovsky district).

       The development of rural tourism, combined with ethnographic and event types of tourism might contribute to the general regional tourist appeal and provide increase of tourist flow. The contemporary Rostov region has certain traditions of ethnographic and event types of tourism, and the regional event calendar includes not only cultural and business activities, but the sport events as well. Development of these tourism types might contribute not only to the increase of the internal and external tourism flow, but also form the positive image of Rostov region, favorable for tourism.