Sport Tourism in Belarus

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SPORT TOURISM IN BELARUS Belarus is a very attractive place to visit. There are different kinds of tourism which are very popular between Belarusians and people from other countries of the world. Belarus offers great health-improving opportunities at sanatoriums and spas for people wishing to spend their holiday with benefit to their health. Belarus has all the facilities for those who is used to the active way of life and is fond of being challenged by hiking, cycling, horse and water travelling. Our country is a new destination on a business map. While in Belarus one can also go on a tour of famous battlefields, find traces of Viking settlements or visit the reconstruction of the Middle Ages knight tournaments. It is possible to visit sacred springs and gain new spiritual experience while visiting Belarusian shrines. And Belarus, a land of forests and water beauties, is an ideal place for the “green” tourism. There are a lot of different kinds of sport such as ice hockey, football, tennis, gymnastics, handball, volleyball, basketball, athletics, acrobatics, boxing, fencing, cycling, chess, draughts which are developed on a high level. In 2014 Belarus will become an arena of the World Hockey Championship, and that’s why the questions of the development of sport tourism in our country are very actual nowadays. We have tried to analyze what kind of tourism is the most popular in our country. For this reason several respondents were given 3 questions: what kind of tourism they & their parents prefer and in their opinion, what kind of tourism is the most profitable in our country. They were proposed 6 answers: business tourism, medical tourism, battlefield and historical tours, religious tourism, ecotourism, sport tourism. 57 respondents have answered the first question, 49 respondents - the second one and 58 respondents – the third one.
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