On March 16-18, 2021, MITT will open the tourist season exhibitions in Russia. This year, the 27th International Tourism Exhibition will be held for the first time at the Crocus Expo IEC.
From year to year, MITT brings together hundreds of countries, regions and thousands of destinations, allowing you to travel around the world without leaving the exhibition area. Despite the current difficult situation with moving around the world, the MITT 2021 exhibition will be held in a “live” offline format and will traditionally delight visitors with a variety of participants. Exhibitors from abroad who cannot come to the exhibition for objective reasons invited their Russian employees to participate, as you can’t miss MITT, the leading international travel event!
Participation in MITT 2021 will be attended by Turkey, Greece, Abkhazia, Maldives, Catalonia, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Thailand, Montenegro, Israel, Bulgaria, Saxony and Albania, plus Kazakhstan will be presented with the city of Alma-Ata. More than 20 companies will be presented at the stand of Armenia, and Belarus, traditionally popular among Russians, will come up with an expanded exposition in response to the growing demand. Among the foreign participants are tour operators from Kenya, Madagascar, Peru, India, Latvia, Italy, Chile and other countries.
A separate hall will be set aside for the exposition of the regions of Russia. Last year, the tourist flow to the regions has significantly increased, which could not but affect the composition of the Russian participants in the exhibition. For example, Altai Republic has increased its stand almost 4 times. Some regions of Russia will take part in MITT for the first time, including Republic of Tyva, Omsk, Ivanovsk, Samara and Saratov, Bryansk regions. Only at MITT, the Far Eastern Federal District will be so hugely represented as part of the Republic of Buryatia, Kamchatka and Primorsky Territories, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Sakhalin Region, as well as the Trans-Baikal Territory, which is participating in MITT for the first time. Irkutsk region will present recreation on Lake Baikal, and Norilsk and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District will acquaint visitors of the exhibition with Arctic tourism. The North Caucasian Federal District at MITT will be represented by Chechnya, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia and the Stavropol Territory. Also confirmed their participation in the exhibition: Tyumen, Voronezh, Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod, Oryol, Kaluga, Tula, Novgorod, Magadan, Ryazan, Volgograd, Ulyanovsk and Kaliningrad regions; Tatarstan, Adygea, Karelia and the Komi Republic; Krasnodar and Perm Territories, Rostov Region and Rostov-on-Don, Moscow Region, Moscow and many other regions.
According to the annual tradition, the participating regions submitted their own videos to the Russian Regions Video Competition: voting for the best video is open on the MITT website until March 15. The award ceremony for the winners of the competition will take place on March 17 at the exhibition site.
Tour operators TUI, ART-TOUR, Kartazh Travel, Ost-West, Petrotour, Nevsky Seasons, Profkurort, Grumant, Tari Tour have confirmed their participation in MITT. Technologies in tourism will be presented by the companies Travel Line, Sirena-Travel, Edelink, reservation service “Bronevik”, “IT Special”. Also participating in MITT are: Krasnaya Polyana resort, cruise center Infoflot, AZAL Azerbaijan Airlines, Vityaz – an airline and travel operator of Kamchatka, cruise companies Doninturflot, Lenaturflot and others.