Children's tourism development concept is developed in Bashkiria

UFA, 7 February 2017. /Bashinform News Agency, Alim Faizov/. In Bashkortostan a concept of children’s tourism development for the period up to 2020 is developed. A draft document was discussed yesterday at a meeting of the Government. Within three years it is planned to increase the share of pupils covered by the tourist services from 50 percent to 70 percent in 2016 in 2020. However, as the Minister of Education RB Gulnaz Shafikova notes, it is expected to increase the number of children engaged in various forms of tourist and regional studies from 35 percent in 2016 to 55 percent in 2020. Accordingly, the number of arranged tourist and excursion routes for schoolchildren will increase from 40 to 100, the press service of Bashkortostan Government informs.