UrFU Student Won a Contest With an Idea for a Retreat Tour in the Middle Urals

10:41, June 3, 2024

12 third-year students presented ideas of routes revealing the tourist potential of the region

Anastasia Naimushina, a third-year student of Tourism at the UrFU Institute of Humanities, won the Ural Tourism Association competition with a retreat project in the suburbs of Ekaterinburg.

"This is a reboot tour, during the three days of which it is forbidden to be distracted by domestic problems and think about work. It is designed for small, up to 13-person groups of creative women over 30," Naimushina explains.

Anastasia believes that the Sverdlovsk region is multifaceted and original, so the retreat tour differs from analogs in other regions, which are aimed only at in-depth study and practice of yoga or meditation.

"In return, we offer tourists ‘classics’ and author's developments: transformational game-training ‘Lilu’, sup-board yoga, entertainment, and creative programs that will help to disconnect from the daily hustle and bustle and reboot. Tourists will enjoy tranquility, develop a creative streak, and draw a painting on the banks of the Chusovaya River or make a mug at a factory in Sysert," she adds.

A total of 12 UrIH UrFU students took part in the contest, and four of them were rated the highest by the jury representatives of the tourism industry.

Thus, the second place was shared by Denis Andriyakin, the author of an ethno-cultural route in the southwest of the Sverdlovsk region, and Anastasia Chetkina, who proposed a combined tour of the Satka district of the Chelyabinsk region. Svetlana Bryzgalova took third place with a project of traveling to ecological tourism sites near Ekaterinburg.

"Some of the guys developed routes to places that are already quite popular, but selected objects of a certain theme, and some of them staked on a completely new offer for the tourist market of the Urals. It is great that thanks to such competitions students can offer tour operators something new and contribute to the development of domestic tourism in Russia," says Alexander Osintsev, a specialist in educational and methodological work at the Department of Social and Cultural Service and Tourism, who supervised the students. 

Reference

The first Sergey Buzko Student Work Competition results were summarized last week during the Summer 2024 tourism exhibition in Ekaterinburg. The organizers were the Urals Tourism Association, the Urals Regional Branch of the Russian Union of Travel Industry, and the Administration of Ekaterinburg.

Sergey Buzko, a graduate of the Chemistry Department of the Urals State University (now UrFU), founder and CEO of the Mir travel agency, passed away in May 2023.

Dmitry Benemansky

The news article was translated by UrFU International Marketing Office.
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