In the first half of the year 2018, over 227 thousand tourists visited Elbrus resort. The tourist flow statistics remained at the level of the same period last year with some minor growth.

A meeting on the development of the tourism cluster in NCFD and interaction between the Ministry of North Caucasus Affairs of the Russian Federation and Northern Caucasus Resorts JSC, in terms of increase of investment attractiveness of all-season resorts in the region, was held under the chairmanship of Sergey Chebotarev, Minister of the Russian Federation for Northern Caucasus Affairs.

In the all-season resort Arkhyz in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, construction of facilities on the North-oriented slope in Romantik tourist village is going on. More than 350 persons of technical personnel and over 130 vehicles and special vehicles are involved in construction and installation works.

Within the official program of the working visit of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to the Austrian Republic a memorandum of cooperation in development of the North Caucasus tourism cluster was signed between Joint-Stock Company Northern Caucasus Resorts, Austrian LEITNER GmbH and French POMA S.A.S. The ceremony was held on June 5, within the extended meeting of the Russian-Austrian Business Council at the Austrian Economic Chamber, before the First Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for North Caucasus Affairs, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Joint-Stock Company Northern Caucasus Resorts Odes Baysultanov.

The Ministry of the North Caucasus Affairs and Joint-Stock Company Northern Caucasus Resorts signed a tripartite agreement on tourist and recreational activities with the first resident of Armkhi and Tsori SEZ in Dzheyrakhsky and Sunzhensky municipal districts of the Republic of Ingushetia – Turistichesky Tzentr LLC.

This was announced by Odes Baysultanov, the First Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for North Caucasus Affairs, Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC NCR on the margins of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum SPIEF-2018, which ended last weekend.

Today, on May 25, at the booth of the French Republic within the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum SPIEF 2018, Joint-Stock Company Northern Caucasus Resorts and POMA S.A.S. signed the action plan (road map) to develop a plan of industrialization of ropeways production in the North Caucasus Federal District and to introduce French ropeway equipment production technologies. The document fixes the areas of further partners’ cooperation within Russian-French Joint Venture National Ropeways, the shareholders agreement on which was signed during the Russian Investment Forum on February 15, 2018.