The first resorts in the tourist and recreational zones will begin work in 2012 d: Rosturizm.

Government of the Russian Federation until 2010, will send 9.1 billion rubles for the construction of infrastructure 7 special economic zones of tourist-recreational type.

As the correspondent of IA REGNUM, reported by the deputy head of the Federal Agency for Tourism (Rosturizm) Anatoly Yarochkin in Nizhny Novgorod in the All-Russian conference on the development of cruise tourism in the Russian Federation on November 9.

Despite the fact that the program for the establishment of the Russian Federation, tourist and recreational zones will last until 2025, the first spa will be open to visitors in 2012, said Yarochkin.

It was reported that Russia will set up 7 tourist and recreational zones: in the Altai Republic, the Republic of Buryatia, in the Altai Territory, in the Krasnodar region, Stavropol Territory, in the Irkutsk region and in the Kaliningrad region.

The Russian government took the appropriate decision of 3 February 2007. The objectives of the establishment of tourist and recreational areas: the promotion of investment, aimed at the preservation, development and effective use of tourism and recreational resources in the territory of Russia, the creation of modern tourism, transport, housing and communal, social and other infrastructure, as well as the concentration of resources for the development of the resort -recreation complex of Russia.