The amendments specifying a kind of tourism “focused on familiarization with the Olympic facilities located in the Krasnodar Territory” were made to the regional law “On tourism activity in the Krasnodar Territory” on  January 28.

      Olympic tourism is tourism focusing on familiarizing with sports facilities built in the Territory for the Olympic Games 2014. According to the authors of this document, the experts on Olympic legacy of Krasnodar Territory, this law will help increase the profit from the use of Olympic facilities in Sochi and maintain a consistently high tourist inflow in the region. The executor of the new law will be regional Department of the Olympic legacy: it has been commissioned with responsibilities to control and to create conditions for the development and promotion of Olympic tourism.

      According to the Head of the Department, dozens of significant events, including the use of the Olympic facilities, have been conducted in Sochi in recent months.

      According to the estimates of the Sochi tour operators, the Olympic facilities are the most popular attractions of the resort city and its surroundings today. The Olympic routes have been featured also by the representatives of Chinese businesses who intend to include visits to sports facilities into tour programs for their customers this summer.