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"Guest Card" is gaining popularity in Saint Petersburg
 “Guest Card” - analog of “City Pass” – International Travel Service, that works in the entire world's major tourist centers, is successfully increased.  In the year 2011 were sold more than 800 cards that number exceeds the number of cards that were sold during the first year of sale of such cards in Barcelona.

There are three components, included in Card:

• Transport
• Cultural and Educational
• Discount

“Guest card” provides:

The Card can be 2 to 7 days valid, and the price can be from 1950 to 2950 roubles.

As the high season in October is already over, 25% of the “Guest Card” users are foreign tourists and 75% are Russian tourists. About 80% were people aged 25 to 45 years, in September 7% were tourists under 25 years, and nobody over 55 year.

“Guest Card of St. Petersburg” is available in online stores, web site,  city's tourist information centers, railway stations, trains, branded "Red Arrow"

• Free entry to 25 museums
• Unrestricted and free use of metro and other public transportation
• Discounts from the project partners: shops, restaurants and hotels.

Realization of the city targeted program of tourist development till the end of year 2014 was launched In the Tver region. The main goal of this program is the maximum conservation of the historical center and monuments.

In the City Hall, in which in the early 1860s was a provincial government headed by Vice-Governor of Saltykov-Shchedrin were a meeting with the media. Oleg Kudryashov, deputy chief of a mayor of Tver Alexander Pushkin, Ivan Krylov and the other great Russian people were walking”.

Created like a Rome, St. Petersburg, Versailles, the city center of a Town is an example of a complex plan with a three-beam system of streets, which was first used for provincial town. "I would like to conserve the historical aspect of the center and the whole town of Tver” - says Oleg Kudryashov, at the same time he reminds that the main trouble of many towns is “when the most valuable areas in the central part of the city become a cherry on the cake for dishonest investors."

The fact is that in the reconstruction of the embankments of Tver began, including the embankment of Stepan Razin, where white stone masonry was completed and the lower terrace was paved with granite, as well as strengthening the bank is completed and the arrangement of walkways is near the completion.

Also, the great hope of citizens is the reconstruction of railway station and adjacent areas which is planned by “Russian Railways”. In fact the October Railway’s bench passes through the city at a distance of 20 km. In future, citizens and guests of the city will see the unusual architecture of a modern railway station building, a new hotel, a congress-hall, and covered parking of public and personal transport.

By the year 2012 another less complex and ambitious but important idea of administration will be realized. The idea is that the signs with directions and distances to sister cities will be installed starting the following year. For example:Veliko Tarnovo, Bergamo, Osnabrück.  Placing signs gives reason to believe that the city is going to expand cooperation with foreign partners not only in the tourist area.

At the moment, the city has 13 hotels, and only three of them have a "star." Total number of rooms - a little over 800 rooms, the average usage factor of which just over 40%. However, according to the data of Statistical Service, more than 92 thousand people visit the city, at the same time, the experts have informed of twice amount as much.

Program of tourism development in the Novgorod region until 2014, which was adopted last week, and provides 29.85 million rubles the total funding. Previously, such projects were part of projects or programs on a larger scale, however, this year the program received its independent status.
Increase the number of visitors to lesser-known places such as Staraya Russa and Novgorod at the expense of infrastructure development - the main tasks put in the three-year development plan for the Novgorod region. The focus, thus becoming an active, recreational and event tourism, and the popular tourist centers of the region should also be made to cities such as Chudovo, Valdai, Lyubytino, Borovichi. Plan to the International Festival of Ethnic Music and continue to develop the idea of a museum and tourist complex at the Rurik mound.
Excursions in the Novgorod region were the main tourist product, until recently, because in the region there are more than 4,800 sites of cultural and historical heritage, but the region has decided to focus on event tourism, for example, tourists enjoy visiting program called "Journey in times of Novgorod Veche" .
Conducted marketing studies confirm that approximately 30% of tourist visitors representation (mainly Moscow and St. Petersburg), especially Book hotels and adjust your route for the "Novgorod Veche".

List of attractions of St. Petersburg will fill up because of the initiativeof Committee of the Arts of St. Petersburg administration.

Tourists, who came to our city not for the first time, are already bored of Alexander Column and the Hermitage, the Peter and Paul Fortress and bridges. In order to “return” tourists, city needs to find new and unusual attractions. For this reason, in St. Petersburg were opened a popular vote, after that will be chosen so called “informal sightseengs”. According to voting results will be issued a special register on the basis of which will be made aguide for those who are already familiar with the traditional set of attractions, or just wants to meetfurther with St. Petersburg.  At the same time, in the register can be not only monumental objects, but also interesting and unusual buildings with graffiti.

To date, a list of sites already filled up about 60 sites, including:

Siskin-Pyzhik in the Summer Garden
"Nose of Major Kovalev" on Voznesensky Prospect
Panorama at the St. Nicholas Cathedral, where, at one point, we can see at once seven bridges in St. Petersburg
Watch with a shell fragment from Second World War Museum of the "Vodokanal"
Boiler room "Kamchatka," in which worked Viktor Tsoi
Figurine of a hare in the fortress
interesting firewalls, pictures on the walls, and species that rarely see those tourists who do not have enough time
Now anyone can send its own version of interesting places: just enough to place the image on the site, which is to vote on the installations.

According to the information of Committee on Investments and Strategic Projects Administration of St. Petersburg within 10 months of 2011 over 600 thousand tourists arrived in St. Petersburg by sea. 456 000 were passengers of cruise ships, which navigation ended October 12, and the other 144,000 arrived by ferry. However, the later figure is not final, because the ferry lines to Helsinki and Stockholm are year-round, and therefore, are expected to increase the number of tourists arriving by ferry to approximately 170 thousand people.

The results of the cruise connection in St. Petersburg, were:

• Passenger Port "Marine Facade" took 417 000 passengers (220 ship calls)
• Other places of mooring marine ships - cruisers 39 000 (87 ship calls)

The data clearly show that large cruise ships with a large number of passengers taking the port "Marine Facade", and small vessels and a premium class prefer on mooring quays of the Neva. Recall that in May, "Marine Facade" was entirely given to the city, and its construction was carried out on public-partial partnership, whose major shareholder is the Government of St. Petersburg. At the same time, construction was invested 19 billion rubles, of which:

• The federal investment - 8 billion rubles,
• Private funds - 11 billion rubles

Ferries "Princess Anastasia" and "Princess Mary" which operates regular flights to Stockholm and Helsinki transported more than 286 000 passengers, tourists from this number is only half.

In general, marine passenger navigation was better than expected. Initially, in St. Petersburg had to take a ferry 152 and 242 cruise ships, which accounted for 415 000 120 000 cruise and ferry passengers.

In reality, the ferry tourists were more up to 40%, while cruise - about 10%. Thus, even were exceeded last year's results, when the city was visited 363,000 cruise passengers.

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