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00:0016 января 1998
Petersburg-based tourist agency Elintour has come up with an idea for underwater explorations of sunken objects in the Finnish Gulf and Ladozhsky Lake. These two bodies of water are the lonely graveyards to more than 6,000 objects which found their final
<BR>Petersburg-based tourist agency Elintour has come up with an idea for underwater explorations of sunken objects in the Finnish Gulf and Ladozhsky Lake. These two bodies of water are the lonely graveyards to more than 6,000 objects which found their final resting places there between the years 1128 and 1956. Specialists believe tours of this kind will be extremely popular among foreign adventure seekers. This was announced at a seminar whose main theme was devoted to development questions of domestic and international tourism in St. Petersburg. The seminar was carried out jointly by the city administration's Committee on Foreign Relations and the London Worldwide Council on Tourism (LWC) whose membership includes 125 representative offices located in almost every corner of the world. LWC members represented in Russia have branches in the cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad. The possibility of St. Petersburg hosting LWC's congress in the Fall of 1998 was also discussed at the seminar. A decision was reached in common by the Petersburg administration and tourist agencies of the city to initiate the creation of a strategic marketing bureau. This entity is expected to coordinate work in the field of adventure and cultural tourism. Likewise, a marketing plan was developed to make using tourist resources more effective and to improve the city's tourism infrastructure. Furthermore, tourist programs like the one created by Elintour will be examined by a government body, and if they are considered to be truly promising, they will be supported.
