The flow of Ukrainian tourists in 2015 in the Crimea will exceed last year's, anyway, 70% of tourists coming to the Peninsula, are the Russians, said on the first day weekend the head of the state Council of the Republic of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov.

not less than 170 thousand tourists arrived in the Crimea only in the past week, such information has led the Minister of resorts and tourism of the Republic of Crimea Sergey strelbitskiy. According to the Minister, today in Crimea via the ferry each day comes nine thousand tourists, Simferopol airport serves every day to 30 thousand people.

"Seventy % at this moment - a tourist from Russia, but Ukraine also went much more Ukrainian tourists this year than last. The processes in this sense, positive, holiday season has entered the active phase, " - said Konstantinov.

The holiday season in Crimea began on 1 may. A predictive indicator of the number of vacationers in 2015 is 4, 3 million tourists, which is 15% more than in 2014. However, the Republic's authorities hope that the Peninsula will arrive about five million tourists. Millionth visitor was welcomed in Crimea on June 19, nearly ten days earlier than in 2014.

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