The director of the Kronotsky State Reserve, Peter Shpilenok, spoke out against the tenfold increase in the tourist flow to the Valley of Geysers in Kamchatka at the Eastern Economic Forum.
“Already now the Valley of Geysers is visited by about six to seven thousand tourists, and we are talking about a tenfold increase, and I strongly disagree with that,” he said at a meeting with reporters. In his opinion, such an increase in tourist traffic will require a decrease in the duration of excursions and will interfere with the "immersion" of tourists in the local nature.
The already achieved level of flow is not the limit of the tourist load, however, according to the director of the reserve, it is necessary to monitor it locally. And although a sharp increase in the number of visitors to excursions will not harm nature, ecological tourism itself, going beyond reasonable volumes, will lose quality, the "philosophy of the place" will not be preserved.
He also noted that the level of training in the tourism sector in Kamchatka is insufficient for a massive influx of tourists.
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