Hotels and health
resorts of the peninsula began to accommodate visitors from other regions of
the country as late as on July 1 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
SIMFEROPOL, August 4.
/TASS/. Crimea received about 1.5 mln tourists in July, Head of the republic
Sergey Aksenov said on Tuesday.
"From July 1 to
July 31, 1.432 mln tourists vacationed in Crimea. Of these, 31.9% arrived by
air, 62.7% - via Crimean Bridge by cars and buses, 5% - by rail, and less than
1% - through the state border of Russia at Armyansk, Dzhankoy, Perekop
sites," Aksenov wrote on his Vkontakte social network page.
He added that the
average occupancy of accommodation facilities in July was 80%, which reached
95% for a number of properties.
Crimea set records in
terms of tourist flow in 2018 and 2019. Thus, in 2018, 6.8 mln people visited
the peninsula, and in 2019, 7.4 mln tourists arrived in the region. In 2020,
the holiday season in Crimea began with a delay due to the coronavirus
pandemic. The republic, according to various estimates, has lost 1 - 2 mln
tourists. Hotels and health resorts of the peninsula began to accommodate
visitors from other regions of the country from July 1. Prior to that, they had
worked only for residents of the region for two weeks.
Source: ITAR-TASS
04-08-2020
