A representative office of the "Guest Card" center has opened in Vitebsk

A "Guest Card" center's representative office has opened in Vitebsk near the city hall, in the building at 2 Suvorov Street, a BELTA correspondent reports.

Tourists and residents of Belarus will be able to purchase a guest card here starting today. Its holders will receive various bonuses and discounts when visiting museums and galleries in Vitebsk and district centers of the region, and when staying in agro-tourism estates in the region. Discounts reach up to 50%. The creators of the card expect it to contribute to the development of domestic tourism. "Several types and formats of cards have been developed, including for guests of the II European Games. You can buy a guest card at points of sale, as well as online. The project is popular in Minsk, and we hope there will be interest in it in the regions," said Boris Vasiliev, Director of UP "Mingorspravka". - The number of tourist facilities across the country included in the project is approaching 700. In the Vitebsk region, there are about 70 of them. We expect the number of project participants to reach 1,000 by the end of the year."

In addition, the enterprise plans to discuss with the management of the "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk" festival possible formats for promoting the guest card during the creative forum. Vitebsk became the third regional center where a regional representative office of the guest card appeared. Before that, they were opened in Mogilev and Grodno, and Gomel is next. The tourist project "Guest Card. Cities and Regions of Belarus" (Minsk Card. Cities&Regions of Belarus) is being implemented by "Mingorspravka" with the support of the Ministry

of Sports and Tourism, the Ministry of Culture, the Minsk City Executive Committee and regional executive committees, the "Minsk" information and tourism center under the state program for tourism development "Belarus is Hospitable" for 2016-2020. It involves museums, galleries, zoos, water parks, hotels, restaurants, agritourism estates, cafes, retail outlets, car and bicycle rental services, which offer bonuses and discounts.

 Andrei Shcherbitsky,   BELTA.