The National Polotsk Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve took part in the International Exhibition-Fair of Tourism Services «Rest-2023», which was held on April 13-15 in Minsk. The event was organized by the Ministry of Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Belarus, the National Exhibition Center Belexpo and the National Tourism Agency. About 300 different organizations and enterprises from Belarus, Russia, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Cuba, Bulgaria and Pakistan took part in the exhibition.
Before the start of the exhibition, its organizers noted that this year special attention is paid to individuals who are ready to travel around Belarus and other countries, relax and enjoy it.
All types of tourism were widely represented in the Minsk Palace of Sports - industrial, business, gastronomic, etc. Individual regions of the Russian Federation - Kuzbass, Karelia, Dagestan, Crimea - demonstrated their tourism potential very presentably. Particular attention at the fair was paid to the Nizhny Novgorod region, which acted as the general partner of the exhibition.
The National Polotsk Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve was presented at the Poozerye Region stand, where souvenirs were offered and its branches were actively advertised. The program of business events at the site «Know Belarus» also included the presentation of a new tourist and excursion route «The Romanovs in the history of Polotsk», prepared by the head of the Museum of Local History of Polotsk I.P. Vodneva. Having walked along it, a potential tourist will be able to find out which of the representatives of the House of Romanov and for what purpose visited the ancient city of Belarus from the middle of the 17th to the beginning of the 20th century, how many days the members of the imperial family stayed in Polotsk, what attracted them to the city, and why they came here sent their children to school.
