The corporation for the development of the Far East and the Arctic has started accepting applications for an ethno-cultural gas pedal for tour companies, ethno-complexes and accommodation facilities in the Russian Arctic.

Applications for participation can be submitted by travel agencies located and working in the Russian Arctic zone, as well as by individual entrepreneurs, ethno complexes, ethno villages, ethno parks and accommodation facilities.

Applications will be accepted until January 12, 2022 at the link.

"The goal of the gas pedal is not only the promotion of tourism in the polar regions, but also the overall sustainable development of the Arctic regions and the preservation of the traditions, way of life and culture of the indigenous peoples of the North. People of 15 ethnic groups, absolutely different from each other, live in the Russian Arctic today, making it a unique tourist destination", - the report says.

During the first week of application forms more than 30 companies from Murmansk, Salekhard, Norilsk and Anadyr applied for participation, as Deputy Minister for the Development of the Far East Pavel Volkov said.

The gas pedal will be held in several stages. At first, participants will go through a competitive selection process, which will result in the identification of 15 teams. Accelerator program consists of ten expert and three mentoring sessions from leading experts in the tourism industry. The finalists will receive content for promotion on social networks and on the web-site and their tour products will be included into the guidebook on ethno-cultural tourism in the Arctic.

The main program of the gas pedal will take place from January 17 to March 5, 2022.

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Author: Ksenia Gustova