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The Leningrad Region's system of recreation, tourism, and sports is one of the most developed in Russia. In addition to its own needs, the region serves the needs of St. Petersburg and the Russian Northwest. The region has more than 600 rest houses including over 100 rest camps that belong to corporations and other organizations, as well as tourist camps, hotels, camps for one-day or two-day resting, children's camps, sanatoriums, and pensions.
Currently, the region's unlimited recreation resources are not used to their full potential. At the same time, the tourist movement in the region is growing steadily. The region has a population of 1.7 million people and is visited by more than two million guests per year. The recreational demand is related to the cultural and historic monuments of St. Petersburg and its nearest suburbs, and the visitors are mainly foreigners. As for the Leningrad Region, the development of tourism is slowed by the absence of the required recreation infrastructure and modern tourism services.
At the moment, the hotel services are relatively well developed in the Karelian Isthmus in the districts of Vyborg, Vsevolozhsk, and Priozersk, where there are tourist camps, hotels, sanatoriums, rest houses, motorways, cafes, and bars. This is where the main recreation demand of St. Petersburg citizens is concentrated. The main natural aesthetic value of the Karelian Isthmus is the coastline of the Gulf of Finland, the Ladoga Lake, and the Vuoksa Lake and River System, which complements the landscapes of neighboring Finland.
At the same time, practically all the districts in the Leningrad Region have great recreation potential from the viewpoint of excursions and sports tourism. This is especially true for the northeast part of the region, where there are fascinating relics of the ancient Russian North, like the 12th century St. George Church in Staraya Ladoga or the stone and wooden buildings of the 15th - 18th centuries in the Svir river area. |
