摘要：On 18 January 2007, at the session of the Government of the Russian Federation the resolution to create
seven tourism and recreational zones in the country¡¯s territory was passed. From the point of view of the
Ministry, the most attractive to tourists are the following regions: the Republics of Buryatia and Altai,
Irkutsk and Kaliningrad Oblasts, the Altai, Krasnodar and Stavropol Krais. Apparently, this event symbolizes
the start of the active period of the state support for tourist industry, which is to become one of the driving
forces of regional development, and later the development of the Russian economy as a whole.
