The authorities of the Kavkazskiye Mineralniye Vody plan to increase capacity of the resort by 1.5-fold, ITAR-TASS reports.
The resort will be reconstructed and build new sanatoriums to increase capacity from 33,500 to 50,000. It will allow it to have 120,000 visitors a month.
Mikhail Bondarenko, deputy head of the local administration says the resort produces 17,000 cubic meters of mineral water daily. Only 20% of it is used. Lake Tambukan has about 1-1.4 million tons of healing dirt. About 10,000 tons were used annually in the Soviet times. The figure dropped 7-8-fold.
Ahmed Bilalov, CEO of the Resorts of the North Caucasus State Corporation, says that decisions on the thermal cluster will be made no sooner than April 2012. Construction of the tourism cluster in Russia’s south will take place in 2011-2020. Five resorts will be built: Lagonaki (Adygea), Arkhyz (Karachay-Cherkessia), Elbrus-Bezengi (Kabardino-Balkaria), Mamison (North Ossetia - Alania), Matlas (Dagestan).
Hotels will have 89,000 rooms. The resorts will see 150,500 visitors daily and 5-10 million annually. There will be state and private financing. The tourism cluster includes coastal areas of the Caspian Sea (Dagestan), the Kavkazskiye Mineralniye Vody (Stavropol Territory) and Ingushetia.
