The Chagall House-Museum and 4 other tourist sites will be reconstructed in Vitebsk in 2009-2010.

March 24, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. The Marc Chagall House-Museum is among the five tourist attractions and leisure facilities to be built and reconstructed in Vitebsk over the next two years. Deputies of the Vitebsk City Council of Deputies approved the tourism development program in the regional center for 2009-2010 today, BELTA correspondent reports. In addition to the reconstruction of the artist's parental home, a cafe with 16 seats will be built on the museum grounds. The program also provides for the completion of the construction of the Holy Resurrection Church, the improvement and equipping of the Central Park of Culture and Recreation named after the Red Army with modern attractions, and the arrangement of a boat station. Along with the development of the tourism infrastructure of the regional center, personnel and scientific support are necessary. The program provides for the training of specialists in the organization of educational, ecological, business, and religious tourism. Special attention will be paid to training personnel with secondary vocational education for the service sector. In accordance with the program, scientists will be tasked with assessing the investment attractiveness of the city, as well as various components of the tourism industry to form a portfolio of investment proposals. Within the next two years, a tourist information center will be established in the regional center, the main task of which will be to form the city's service network, identify potential export markets for tourism services, and promote the city's tourism product on the world market. The implementation of marketing activities will increase the efficiency of using tourism resources and double the volume of tourism service exports. The program's activities will be financed from the regional budget and extra-budgetary funds. -0-