Five mountain-ski resorts to be built in Northern Caucasus

The Russian government has stated its intention to erect five modern European-class mountain-ski resorts in the territory of Northern Caucasus within the nearest 10 years.

The mountain-ski complexes are planned in Matlas (Dagestan), Mamison (North Ossetia), Arkhyz (Karachai-Circassia), Lagonaki (Adygea) and Elborus (Kabardino-Balkaria).

The largest resorts will be Mamison and Arkhyz. The North-Ossetian one will occupy 1500 hectares, while the routes will make 300 kilometres in total. It will house up to 50,000 tourists. The second-largest, according to the plans, will be Arkhyz, where the total route length will make 278 km; it will have 21,000 hotel places, the source named "15th Region" writes.

With commissioning of these five mountain-ski resorts, according to expert's estimates, the flow of tourists will make 5-10 million persons a year, the "Komsomolskaya Pravda" notes.

According to the portal "Tourprom.ru", the initiative was put forward by the state, but the government hopes that main capital will arrive from investors.

See earlier reports: "Travel companies see no prospects for tourism in Chechnya yet", "Alexander Khloponin defines strategy of NCFD development", "Karachai-Circassia sees high demand for winter rest in Dombai and Arkhyz".