There are about16,500 tourists in official Yalta lodging facilities and that is 54% of their loading. The Yalta city administration “head” Andrey Rostenko told that in a conversation with RIA Novosti.
According to the Yalta “city mayor”, in general, the holiday season is successful for the city, the number of tourists is gradually increasing. In addition, official lodging facilities but not the private sector accommodations are most in demand among tourists.
“Generally, the season is quite good, there are more and more tourists coming every day, but private sector accommodations are practically unclaimed this year, people choose residential and official accommodation facilities,” Rostenko said.
According to the “administration head”, 137,236 people have already been on vacation in Yalta and this number exceeded the figures of 2014 by 40 thousand people.
Authorities estimated that in total, Crimea could accommodate up to 5 million tourists this year.
