Next year 5 Russian amphibian planes LA-8 will perform a round-the-world flight called “20 leagues above the sea”. The flight will be 60.000 kilometres long and will last for around 3 months.

The word “Vedeno” that now means the most dangerous place in the Chechen Republic of the RF, relatively soon may become associated with ski tourism only. The fact of being motherland of the world-famous terrorist Shamil Basayev may also attract tourists to the region.

The Federal Tourism Agency has developed a special programme for beaches certifying. It is expected that the Sochi beaches will soon get passports and will be included in the city register.

A new tourist route has opened in the Leningrad Region – “Route of Swedish Kings”, following the road that linked all Swedish fortresses in XV century.

The international hotel group Kempinski intends to build a luxury hotel with 200-250 rooms in Novosibirsk. The project has been estimated at 200-250 million roubles.

The Russian Embassy in Georgia starts issuing Russian visas to all categories of Georgian citizens, as the Russian diplomatic representative office in Georgia reports.

The first phase of constructing a large amusement park, analogue of Disneyland, starts in Yekaterinburg at the end of 2008, according to Tourist Information Agency of the city.

An updated website sochiru.ru containing information of the resort and tourist resources of Sochi will open in mid-February, as the Mayor office of the city reports.

Within the nearest two years a Vietnamese business-centre with a hotel “Hanoi-Moscow” will be built in the north-east of the Russian capital. The complex will take a total area of 4.9 hectares.

Kamchatka intends to offer its main product to the world market– a number of services for recreation and strengthening people’s health, in particular – treatment at a sanatorium-resort.