2012 holiday season in the Crimea is the best during the last 20 years

According to the estimates by Rustam Temirgaliyev, the Chairman of the standing commission on the sanatorium (health spa) and resort complex, tourism, and entrepreneurial activities of the Verkhovna Rada of the Crimea, for the peninsula this year’s holiday season is the best over the entire period of Ukrainian independence.

At his Facebook page the deputy has mentioned that the number of tourists in 2012 has grown by 380 thousand people or by 7%. The growth in tax collection from tourism industry companies has reached 55 million UAH or 26%. Among other things, it has been achieved at the expense of legalization of mini hotels. «This vacation year is the best for the Crimea over the entire history of Ukrainian independence», – Rustam Temirgaliyev has concluded.

Approximately 5.2 million tourists have visited the Crimea during the vacation season. Out of this number approximately 4.2 million people were the citizens of Ukraine; 1.2 million people were Russians; 400 thousand people – Belarussians; 300 thousand people – tourists from other countries. Germany, Austria, and Poland have provided the largest numbers of European tourists.

More than 6 million tourists are expected in the Crimea in 2012.

English translation BSN
Adapted from e-Crimea