A tourism festival featuring cooperation between countries along the Silk Road was unveiled on 27 April in Zhangye City, northwest China’s Gansu Province. The opening ceremony of the 11th Dunhuang Tour-Silk Road International Tourism Festival, jointly organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Gansu provincial government, received nearly 700 tourists, investors and media from 48 countries and regions along the “Belt and Road” route, besides domestic guests.
This year’s festival aims to strengthen the “one belt and one road” cooperation, and promote the recovery of the cultural and tourism market. Besides the opening ceremony, a series of events will also take place during the festival, including the Silk Road Tourism Promotion Night, Gansu Tourism Promotion & International Travel Business Cooperation Conference and many more events.
Gansu Province will also carry out the Silk Road route exploration activities to further promote the domestic and international tourism market and high-quality tourism routes in the province. Investors, representatives of the World Tourism Alliance and media will visit Zhangye, Jiuquan, Jiayuguan, Dunhuang, Linxia and other places in Gansu Province.
The largest maze on the coast has opened in the city of Siófok on the southern shore of Lake Balaton. It was built from 200 hay bales and covers an area of 600 square meters
A virtual tour of the ancient Strashnaya Cave, located in the Krasnoshchekovsky district of the Altai Territory, is now available on the "3D Archaeology" website (a project of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
A grand journey for Father Frost aboard his magical train will begin this year on November 19th at the Taishet station, lasting for 54 days. During this time, the train will cover nearly 30,000 kilometers
The digital art festival "Miracle of Light" will take place from November 2nd to 4th at the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg. Bright projections will be accompanied by music, and artists will present unique compositions: they will tell the story of St. Petersburg in their own way and introduce the audience to unusual characters. This was announced on the festival's page on the social network VKontakte
