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EcoTourism Expert continues its journey through the Christmas and New Year holidays all over the world
This time we start from European Belgium and go to Africa, Asia, the Middle East and complete our journey in Russia

As in all of Europe, Christmas is the main winter holiday in France and Switzerland, which is celebrated on the night from December 24 to 25

We start publishing articles about Christmas and New Year Eve. How people all over the world celebrate these holidays. Our correspondents speak with locals to tell you.

An advisor and trainer for Karnataka Ecotourism Board, Dev Balaji Setty has developed many trekking destinations across the State, and prepared detailed project reports for the infrastructures. As a consultant, he has also worked with various resorts to introduce adventure activities in their properties to provide customers with unique value-added services.

If you hurry, you can get a piece of the architectural heritage of the capital of the Netherlands

Arkady Semyonov, Director of the National Lena Pillars Nature Park told about the pearl of the Yakut nature and the first Yakutia’s national park, about the ecotourism in the Republic

The capital of Europe - Strasbourg - dressed up for the main Catholic holiday - Christmas

The Sainte-Croix Zoological Park, situated in the Lorraine National Park in northeastern France, is one of the largest in Europe in terms of the number of animals that are on the brink of extinction.

“GEV is in the process of making villages, with which it is working, plastic-free”, -  says Gauranga Das, Director, Govardhan Ecovillage - Strategy, Collaborations and Communications

Vladimir Grachev, Chairman of the scientific central council of the the All-Russian Society of Nature Conservation and the scientific council of the Russian Academy of Sciences, shared his vision of the possibilities of ecotourism development in Russia. He kindly agreed to answer the questions of EcoTourism Expert.