11/08/2019 16:47

Daydreaming about the Olympiad

[IMG=18557-4145] Two milliard and 980 million roubles (over $103 mln.) should come to the city treasury of the resort year next year, according to the government decision of Russia, says AK&M agency. This sum will go for the reconstruction of Adler airport, which a long ago become a household name in tourist circles. ‘It is hard to call ‘it’ an airport’, - says Elena Voevodina, deputy general director of the company ‘Rose of winds’. – According to my data, Sochi was visited by 7 million people last year. Of course, not all of them came arrived by air. But the fact that the airport does not handle well the tourist flow is obvious. It is also hard to be there as nothing works in it, starting from conditioning system and finishing with wash rooms. At the same time the airport does not only service Sochi but the large part of the Black sea coast and Abkhazia. In my opinion it does not worth reconstructing, you just need to build a new one. Irina Solyankina, head of the Russian department of ‘Vand International Tour’ Irina Solyankina believes that Soshi air gates are an antique construction. ‘We are simply loosing clients, especially VIP. We have many tourists who would like to go to SAS Radisson and Krasnaya Polyana. Yet many refuse to fly because of the airport quality. For us personally as well as for many other agencies working in Russia the reconstruction would be a big advantage – everyone would have more clients. Besides Soshi is in fashion now’. However it is now that easy with the reconstruction. As a BANKO discovered from the Sochi authorities, the money provided by the government would be just enough for widening and renewing the take-off runway. This will definitely not improve the possibilities of the terminal itself in proving the service for passengers. The reconstruction of the airport station complex which has most tourists’ complains needs, according to preliminary evaluation, about $50 million, almost half of the sum provided by the government. The local budget does not have such an amount. However there are plans of participating in the competition of hosting an Olympiad in 2014, so the local authorities hope to be sponsored by the state in relation to these plans.