The Ministry of Resorts of Crimea provided official information about the current occupancies of the health resorts on the peninsula before the holiday season peak. As the minister Sergey Strelbitskiy informed, they are 52% filled, although this rate fell short of 40% last year.
“Overall loading of lodging facilities exceeds the average occupancy rate in five tourist regions. Thus, it was 68% in Saki, 69% – in the Bakhchisaray raion, 56% – in the Alushta raion, 55% – in the Evpatoriya raion, 53% – in the Simferopol raion. At the same time, the loading of certain health resorts is consistently above 70-80% by regions,” the minister said.
According to him, there are 472 lodging facilities with a total capacity of more than 118 thousand guests officially operating in Crimea.