Vitebsk region needs to learn to earn money from the "Slavianski Bazaar" festival - A. Kosinets

March 24, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. Enterprises and organizations of the Vitebsk region must learn to profit from the "Slavianski Bazaar" festival. This was stated today at a meeting of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee by its chairman, Alexander Kosinets, reports a BELTA correspondent. The governor demanded not only to increase the payback of the festival itself and bring it to 100% in 2011, compared to 59.8% in 2010, but also for all districts, enterprises and organizations to learn to benefit from this significant cultural event. "The festival is culture, international relations, economics," emphasized Alexander Kosinets. On his instructions, district executive committees, the regional executive committee's trade department, and the department of physical culture, sports and tourism must develop business plans for their activities at the festival. For example, the trade department will have to expand outdoor trade and involve consumer cooperation enterprises from different regions of the area in it. Catering facilities and outdoor trade will operate on an extended schedule during the festival. The sports and tourism department will have to create special tourist routes for festival guests to introduce them more widely to the region's attractions. Districts will have to pay close attention to the organization of roadside services for tourists, more actively provide their hotels for festival guests, especially concerning nearby cities - Orsha, Novopolotsk, Polotsk. To accommodate guests and participants of the arts festival, work is already underway at 18 facilities in Vitebsk - hotels, dormitories, and recreation centers. It is planned to involve 49 catering facilities with 3.8 thousand seats for feeding guests. In 2010, there were 40 such facilities with 2.9 thousand seats. -0-