Russian tourist industry: Crimea hardly take more than 6 million tourists

Today in Simferopol hosts conference devoted to strengthening positions of the Peninsula on the Russian tourist market. In this event participated the Russian delegation headed by Deputy Minister of culture of the Russian Federation Alla Manilova. The delegation also includes heads of controls of tourism, Yakutia, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous area, Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk territories, Buryatia, Irkutsk, Kaluga, and Tula regions and Tatarstan, as well as representatives of Russian tour operators.

With Crimean sides are discussing the problems of the Peninsula, the Minister of resorts and tourism Elena Yurchenko, representatives of local Executive bodies of the resort regions of Crimea, sanatorium-resort and tourist complex, tour operators.

It is expected that at the conference the Ministry of resorts and tourism Crimea and regions of Russia will sign agreements on cooperation.

On the eve of the opening of the conference the speaker of the Parliament Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov appealed to the regions Russia with the request to support Crimea by sending tourists on holiday. He suggests that this year the Peninsula can take more than 6 million tourists, It is more, than year earlier.

Director General of the national operator «Alian» Ilya Umansky believes that it is too optimistic words.

«This figure is unlikely to be achieved, " he said in an interview with TRN . - Bolshay part of tourist flow in Crimea share of citizens Ukraine, the Russian part is 2, 5 million Ukrainians same this year Crimea unlikely go. Secondly, it is unclear how complicated the passage of Russia in Crimea by railway. Thirdly, the demand for direction fell sharply, and even if the situation is stabilized quickly, to get at least at last year's level only by the efforts of operators will not succeed anyway. On a good tourist flow can be expected, if the Crimea will provide the Russian authorities and state-owned companies, which have already declared their intention to send their employees otdahnutj on the Peninsula».
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