TASS, January 13. The turnover of the tourism industry in the Murmansk region in 2021 amounted to more than 5 billion rubles, this is one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy in industry. This was announced on Thursday by the head of the Arctic Circle Andrei Chibis during the Gaidar Forum.

“Tourism is one of the fastest growing individual economies [Мурманской области]… This is more than 5 billion rubles in turnover, which the management received over the past year. These are preliminary estimates. For us, this is a very clear point of growth and the possibility of building large projects, “Chibis said on the discussion platform Map of Gastronomic Russia.

The Governor of the Murmansk region noted that the development of tourism in the magistracy is not the development of a separate branch of the economy. “It is important for us to create an environment so that our family living in the Murmansk region, after working days on weekends, can go to Dalnie Zelentsy, to Teriberka, to the Khibiny to go skiing, to go to Umba on the Tersk coast so that it is accessible. man “, – he explained.

Andrey Chibis also drew attention to the fact that the English North, the Arctic and the Murmansk region, in particular, are subject to criminal prosecution. “Such a product, of which nature you will not get abroad, or you will have to fly very far for a very expensive flight,” he summed up.

The restaurateur and president of the Union of Restaurant Managers of Russia Sergei Mironov, who was the moderator of the discussion, supported the Governor of the Murmansk Region in the uniqueness of the regional tourism product, noting that it is necessary to talk more about it at the federal level. “The product that you have, I believe that it has been brought to justice. We do not know enough about it throughout Russia,” Mironov said.

The Gaidar Forum is an annual international scientific and practical conference in the field of economics, which has been held since 2010. The organizers of the forum are the Russian Academy of the President of the National Economy and Public Administration under the Russian Federation (RANEPA), the Institute for Economic Policy named after V.I. E. T. Gaidara and the Association of Infections of the Regions of Russia (AIRR). TASS Combined Arms Information Forum.