St. Petersburg calls tourists to Maslenitsa

Authorities and tour operators of St. Petersburg We invite tourists to Maslenitsa, which this year will be celebrated from February 28 to March 6.

Maslenka week is planned on a Russian scale: at this time a large number of events, various concerts and folk festivals are planned. According to representatives of the tourism industry, this contributes to the support of the tourist flow to the Northern capital in the low season (as you know, from February to April, the attractiveness of the city for tourists is greatly reduced).

Sergey Korneev, Vice-President of the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RST), noted that due to the winter events taking place in the city. St. PetersburgWinter and especially New Year tourism has developed in recent years. According to the same PCT, the number of tourists in the New Year period in the hotels of the city increases by 10-15%.

But at the end of the New Year holidays, the city is noticeably empty and the so-called “dead season” comes. This is due to the fact that the holidays are followed by austerity, and the fact that weather conditions in St. Petersburg at this time of year do not contribute to attracting tourists. But eventful. tourism Recently, it is gaining momentum, and a competent approach to the celebration of national holidays can contribute to the tourist attractiveness of the city.

The initiative of the PCT was supported by deputies of the local parliament and Governor Valentina Matvienko. And now Maslenitsa will become an official city holiday, the budget of which will be almost 350 million rubles. According to the idea of the organizers of the celebrations, Maslenitsa will unite the best traditions of the winter imperial St. Petersburg: the construction of an ice palace, fireworks, and cataract slides. The main venue will be the Central Park of Culture and Recreation. The State Museum-Reserve "Peterhof" plans a master class in the forge at Maslenitsa, as well as a knightly tournament. Fun festivities are planned in the Pavlovsk Museum-Reserve, Tsarskoye Selo, as well as in the Konstantinovsky Palace.

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