LAKE BAIKAL, Russia — Along the shores of a lake ... restrictions that many locals say hold back the potential of tourism in a region that has grown dependent on the industry.

and March 8 (International Women’s Day), Lake Baikal has been the place to be. It is a distillation of tourism in the Instagram age. Tourist information booths covered in snow. Some visitors ...

Lake Baikal, Russia’s ‘Sacred Sea ... Of course, you can’t totally abolish tourism, Baikal is beautiful, and people need to see it; it would be wrong to deprive them of it,” Sibiryakova ...

and 8 March (International Women’s Day), Lake Baikal has been the place to be. It is a distillation of tourism in the Instagram age. Some visitors bring their own smartphone tripods, jumping up ...

Once a hidden gem in the heart of Siberia, Lake Baikal has become a top tourist hotspot, attracting millions of visitors each year. The lake offers a range of activities, from relaxing cruises to ...

This former pulp and paper mill employee used her severance package to invest in tourism. But her small business is having trouble taking off. “A tour around Lake Baikal costs as much as an all ...

More than 1.6 million tourists, mostly Russians, visited the region last year, according to the Irkutsk Tourism Agency ... who owns a small motel on Lake Baikal.Credit...Emile Ducke for The ...

Whenever Alyona Makogon walks through a tourist area near Lake Baikal these days, she is continually stopped by local business owners asking the same question: “When are the Chinese coming?” Before ...