Igor Meshov

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Tourist "capture" of Crimea on the May prepares
25.04.2007

Order of 80-100 thousand having a rest will arrive to Crimea for May holidays. Such is the forecast of some the Crimean tour operators. For May holidays offer velotury and horse rounds on peninsula, ekskursionno-informative rounds (for example, rounds on cave cities and canyons of Crimea) and many other things, informs MIGnews.

Reasonable prices remain on bases of rest. However, if to believe experts, the majority of places there for May holidays are already reserved. But "something else can be found if to rummage on the Internet", experts speak. Places while are and in the majority of hotels, hotels, peninsula boarding houses.

The basic tourist on a mayovka, predict tour operators, there will be Ukrainians - inhabitants of Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kiev, Kharkov and other cities of the east and the country centre. To Crimea there will arrive also the Russian tourists. Their quantity, under forecasts, will be up to standard of last year (an order 10-15 from the general number having a rest). About half of all tourists who have arrived to Crimea for May holidays, will prefer Yalta.

Permits in the Crimean health resorts this year will rise in price for 15-20 percent. For the sun, the sea and pure air it will be necessary to pay a minimum two hundred griven for days. In the ministry of resorts of an autonomy explain such rise in price to that in permit cost the annual maintenance of boarding houses and sanatoria pawn.

And here quality and rest service does not vary almost. It is necessary popular - to go tradition to Crimea the savage. Private traders who hand over apartments, yet have not established the price. "All defines demand. Therefore the private sector cannot dictate anything. It can only is shy wait and hope".

The Crimean authorities rest many years hopes of inter-season period and expect to increase quantity having a rest in one and a half time - to eight millions persons a year. However, concrete ideas as it to reach, at officials are not present. "Here we how wrote, would carry out what actions, festivals, forums, self-captures of the ground areas, protest actions, - at us 5 million, hardly it is more", - Anatoly Gritsenko, the head of the Supreme Rada of Crimea stands up.

The rise in price of railway journey, jumps of the prices for gasoline, antiNATO and Antiukrainian pickets frighten off many having a rest. Resort officials speak: their sphere is very vulnerable and depends on stability in the country.

This year the Crimean resorts celebrate two hundred year's anniversary. For these years they have grown old, but self-sufficient and did not become.