D-line ropeway, a first in Russia, will be built at the Rosa Khutor Resort in Sochi in time for the 2019-2020 ski season, announced Austrian Doppelmayr’s press-service.

Sustainable Tourism: Global Challenges and Discovering Russia, an international conference, will take place in Sochi from the 17th to the 20 th of October. Well-known subject-matter experts, managers of natural protected areas, specialized tour operators, experienced guides, industry representatives and environmentalists from all over the world will gather for a comprehensive discussion about challenges, opportunities and milestones on the path towards sustainable development of ecotourism in Russia and worldwide; they will also outline a plan to cooperate in order to achieve further progress.

Special attention will be brought to ecology programs such as optimization of the solid waste management, reintroduction and protection of the local flora and fauna spices, introduction of energy conservation techniques and ecotourism development.

The jury of the prestigious World Ski Awards named Rosa Khutor Russia’s best ski resort 5th year in a row at a lavish award ceremony in Kitsbuhel, Austria on November 18, 2017.

This year good snow cover may allow ski runs to open as early as the middle of December. For the new season, the ski resort has significantly extended its ski runs, from 77 to 94 kilometers, and put three new cable cars into service.