Seven regions of the Vitebsk oblast represented almost 200 tourist facilities for participation in the Belarusian-Latvian tourist programme “Bella Dvina – traveling via borders, discovering culture, enjoying nature of Zapadnaya Dvina/Daugava region”, Olga Prokhorova, an expert of the project, representative of sport and tourism department of the Polotsk Town Executive Committee, told BelTA.
The list of the tourist facilities includes not only monuments of history and culture but...
Over the ten months 2008, more than Br334 billion was invested in the economy of small towns of the Vitebsk oblast, BelTA learnt from Zinaida Koroleva, the deputy head of the economy department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee.
The small towns of the region are carrying out more than 240 investment projects. Some 15 new production facilities were set up. For instance, the Lepel Dairy Plant has launched the production of ice-cream. The production of packaging has been launched in...
The joint Belarusian-Latvian programme titled as Bella Dvina - Crossing the Border, Discovering the Culture, Enjoying the Nature of the Western Dvina/Daugava River Space starts in Polotsk on November 19, BelTA learnt from Igor Zagrekov, the chief specialist of the sport and tourism department of the Polotsk town council.
On that day Polotsk will host an international conference “Development of tourism in the Bella Dvina region: national and cross-border aspects.” At the conference the...