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The Vzmorye United Rehabilitation Spa Centers’ Fund is
directing a large part of it activities to preparing for the
forthcoming summer season. Thanks to the ROLL Program, the
project covered 10 raions of Primorsky Krai with 300 families
becoming owners of small private hotels. The Fund put together
a detailed database of offered services in which each inn is
thoroughly described (type of location and building, the exact
number and quality of services, photos of the owners, presence
of pets, etc.) According to the Fund’s estimation, next summer
the local B&B&E network will be able to accommodate 13,500
guests; and one family will be earning an average of 56,000
rubles, which is, however not a limit. For example, last
summer a B&B&E from Slavyanka Settlement made over 130,000
rubles.
On December 26, 2003, the Committee for Tourism at the
Primorsky Krai Administration named the Fund’s project of
organizing a B&B&E network the “Best Investment Project of the
Year” and recommended the Federal Employment Service to take
this experience into account. In 2004, the FES will provide
funds from the state budget to train residents in 4 other
raions of Primorsky Krai in the hotel business. Thus, the
efforts of the Vzmorye Fund will be directed toward developing
the business activity of the local population,
At present, the Fund is offering a new service - “New Year's
in a Village” - that is quite popular: 30 applications for 500
guests have already been received. However, the Fund became
aware that the B&B&E network in mountain and forest areas,
which many corporate clients would like to visit, is less
developed than that of the coastal areas and has less hotel
space that is required. This circumstance has determined a new
area in the work of the Fund.
A brochure that was recently put out by the Fund and devoted
to the services of the B&B&E network will be distributed in
Primorsky and Khabarovsk krais and on Sakhalin. Two
publications about the project appeared in the popular local
magazine The Call of the Taiga.
Activities of the project once supported by the ROLL Program
are being actively continued.
Sergei Pleshakov,
Regional Relations Coordinator
RFE ROLL RC, Khabarovsk
sergey@green-house.khv.ru
(4212) 32-96-52
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