The Skolkovo Technopark, Moscow, will host the International Forum-Exhibition “Clean Country”.
As part of the event, the forum participants will discuss the problems and prospects for the development of sustainable tourism in specially protected natural areas.
The development of sustainable tourism in protected areas will help to expand the transport accessibility of natural sites, improve the socio-economic situation of the countries participating in the project, and also create a multiplier effect when implementing the cluster approach.
Among the participants - Alexey Kumarkov, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Kamchatka Territory; Andrey Minchenko, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Chelyabinsk Region; Zhanna Kira, President of the Glamping Association of Russia; Alexey Tikhnenko, Deputy Director of the Roszapovedtsentr, Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia; Sergey Shumilin, Director of the «Nature. Ecology. Person»; Vadim Petrov, State Secretary of the Ecological Chamber of Russia.
The experts will discuss a number of issues that tourism industry workers face in the development of the ecotourism sector, in particular the investment attractiveness of ecotourism; principles of sustainable development in the creation of tourism infrastructure in national parks and biosphere reserves; cluster approach in the development of tourist and recreational complexes; creation of tourist infrastructure in buffer zones; as well as examples of implementation and interaction with the local population.
The forum will be moderated by Evgeny Stupnikov, Director of the Information and Analytical Center for the Support of Wildlife Reserves.
The event is scheduled for March 16-18.
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