They want to increase the flow of tourists to Crimea to 6.5 million tourists in 2024

The Crimean authorities plan to increase the tourist flow to the peninsula in 2024 to 6-6.5 million people, this year it will be about 4 million vacationers, reported “RIA Novosti” head of the Crimean parliament Vladimir Konstantinov.

According to him, when planning the tourist flow in the republic, they focus on the full operation of railway and road transport. There is no talk of resuming air traffic yet, Konstantinov said at the international exhibition and forum “Russia”.

He added that the tourism industry has adapted to the current realities, and the state is supporting it.

At the end of July, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, during a working meeting with the head of the republic, Sergei Aksenov, said that since the beginning of the year, 2.4 million tourists have visited Crimea. By calculations Vice President of ATOR and General Director of the Dolphin company Sergei Romashkin, by the end of the year 4-4.5 million people can come to Crimea, which is 30-38% less compared to 2022, Vedomosti wrote. Then 6.5 million people came to the peninsula to relax, and in 2021 9.5 million people visited Crimea.

In July, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that the Russian government will highlight over 2.5 billion rubles to companies engaged in tourism in Crimea and Sevastopol. to support employment to preserve the tourism potential of the peninsula.