Extreme mountain race as a tourist event

DOI

10.2991/icistis-19.2019.77How to use a DOI?

Keywords

tourism development, tourism potential of the South Ural, extreme running race, Iremel mountain range, nature park, Zigalga ridge, eco-tourism, skyrunning.

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to show the real result of attracting tourists to one of the most remote municipalities in the Chelyabinsk region. For several years, the regional authorities of the Chelyabinsk region have been addressing the problem of tourism development. This problem was most actively discussed in 2014 with the advent of a new governor. Various development strategies and types of regional tourism were considered, the experience of other regions of Russia was adopted. The paper gives an example of attracting tourists by activists of the village of Tyulyuk with the most convenient route to the Iremel mountain range. The annual Extreme Running Race "Healthy as an Elk" has become a tradition, attracting participants from other regions and cities of Russia. The last few races were supported by the local authorities, although private sponsors were responsible for financial support. The age range of participants is expanding. If in the first races there was one age category, then over time there were more nominations, and the oldest participant was 78 years old. The experience of introducing nominations for children turned out to be successful, which made it possible to attract not only athletes and their support groups, but also families. The growing number of the participants and the expansion of geography showed an excellent result and made a significant contribution to increasing the tourist flow to the village of Tyulyuk and visiting the mountain routes of the Iremel and Zigalga ridge.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Konstantin Vinogradov
AU  - Olga Shapovalova
AU  - Alexey Irshin
PY  - 2019/11
DA  - 2019/11
TI  - Extreme mountain race as a tourist event
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Innovations in Sports, Tourism and Instructional Science (ICISTIS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 301
EP  - 305
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icistis-19.2019.77
DO  - 10.2991/icistis-19.2019.77
ID  - Vinogradov2019/11
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