OREANDA-NEWS. January 29, 2010. In the context of the financial and economic crisis affecting dynamics of development of all branches of economy of the republic essentially, enterprises which production is not related to the group of goods or services of first priority face especially vexed problems. Among them we may certainly mention tourist products traditionally providing the most significant tourist flows, as expenditures connected with them are excluded first of all from family budgets almost in all regions. The globally decreasing demand for tourist services leads to strained competition between the tourist centers for reduced tourist flows and to the flight of investments from the branch. Those regions get advantages where active work is conducted for development and promotion of new offers focused on satisfaction of varying preferences of tourists.

In Karelia, despite of complex economic conditions, limitation of material resources, there goes on introduction of new tourist objects intended for use of local tourist, recreational and labour resources. Thus, on January 28 the Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic of Karelia organized and advertising tour for tour operators to the newly constructed tourist object – Marcial Springs guest houses. The object is located 55 km from Petrozavodsk, in a picturesque place on the coast of the lake near the village of Utuki, approximately 2.5 km from the Marcial Waters spa resort and 6 km from the ski slope in Spasskaya Guba. It is remarkable, that the investment project was implemented by inhabitants of Karelia without involving any resources from Moscow or St.-Petersburg. The project is meant to render a wide spectrum of services in the sphere of recreational, natural, rural kinds of tourism the most popular both among Russian, and foreign tourists.

Examples of the such projects implemented in the majority of municipal regions and urban districts of the Republic of Karelia are confirmed by data of independent news agencies according to which Karelia keeps the third place on the general tourist attractibility for tourists of our country and the first place on attractibility in the field of active kinds of tourism.