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South Africa is set to scrape the unabridged birth certificate requirement for minors travelling with foreigners to the country.

Piggies, the smell of straw, and cockcrowing at dawn ... A designer bathroom, homemade ham and jam for breakfast, 150 TV channels. All this is ‘rolled into one’, on a neat fattoria, 30 kilometers away from Bologna, or near Parma - today this can be in any old place in Italy. This country was the pioneer of agritourism.

With the development of ecotourism in Belgium, the bicycle is becoming increasingly popular as a mean of transport. On this indicator, the Kingdom of beer, French fries and chocolate is still inferior to Denmark and the neighboring Netherlands, the two most "bicycle"-countries of the European Union.

Legal entities and individual entrepreneurs who are involved in the development of ecotourism in Karelia will receive money back for part of the costs for creating the appropriate infrastructure, as announced by Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Republic Yanina Svidskaya. She explained that such an opportunity is provided as part of amendments made to national legislation adopted in September 2019.

In the national park "Land of the Leopard" in Primorye there are new trails available for tourists. For the first time, visitors will have the opportunity to see the old Korean homes of resettlers. The new trails will combine the cultural heritage with ecotourism.

Russia is the only country in the world that uses zero-discharge technology in offshore oil production, the head of the Committee on ecology and environmental protection of the State Duma Vladimir Burmatov said.

The KamAZ-based offroad vehicle – mobile laboratory – was demonstrated at the II International Conference “Natural Tourism: A Global Challenge and the Discovery of Russia,” which is taking place these days at the Rosa Khutor Ski Resort, Sochi.

Legislative work aimed at ecotourism is currently the most important thing for its successful development, said Sergei Bachin, Director General of the Rosa Khutor Ski Resort, speaking at the II International Conference “Natural Tourism: A Global Challenge and the Discovery of Russia”.

PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) fully supports nature reserves in the Murmansk region, on the Taimyr Peninsula and the Transbaikal territory, Vice-President of Norilsk Nickel Dmitry Prystanskov said. "We provide comprehensive support to reserves such as "Pasvik", Lapland in the Murmansk region, the joint Directorate of Taimyr reserves, the reserve "Relic oaks" in the the Transbaikal territory," he said, speaking in Moscow at the VIII Ecological forum "Responsibility of business to the future. Technology on the side of society and nature."

When creating the Three Volcanoes park in Kamchatka, it is necessary to provide a recreational ecosystem, said Peter Shpilenok, director of the Kronotsky State Reserve, in his speech at the II international conference "Natural tourism: a global challenge and the discovery of Russia". He emphasised that forming the trail network and creating infrastructure in the planned park is necessary at the stage of assessment and development to ensure the possibility of mandatory strict management of tourist flows and the introduction of scientific monitoring of natural complexes.