Yalta – The number of tourists, who came on holidays to Yalta, Crimea, over 11 month of 2013, was 17% higher than over the same period of 2012, Yalta mayor Serhiy Ilash said on the air of a municipal TV channel.
“As of December 1, a total of 705,728 people went on holidays to
Yalta. Compared with 2012, this is a 17 percent increase in the number
of tourists. This tendency continues until the end of the year,” Ilash
said.
He noted that the implementation of the project “Yalta – a Major
Black Sea All-Season Resort” launched in 2013 had helped the situation.
According to the preliminary results of activities in the Autonomous
Republic of Crimea, Yalta ranked second in the health resort and tourism
sector, the mayor said.
Looking ahead, he noted that last year’s adoption of a master plan
for Yalta for 25 years, which was done for the first time in the city’s
history, should play an important role in the development of the
recreation and tourism sector. “We have also developed and adopted a
program for improvement of squares and parks in Yalta,” Ilash said.
The mayor said that as 2014 was declared the Year of Tourism in the
CIS, a program of tourism development in Yalta for the next five years
would be created and approved. “We also hope that a comprehensive
renovation and modernization of the port of Yalta will start, which will
contribute to the development of the cruise and yacht tourism,” Ilash
said.
According to him, the program of economic and social development of
Yalta for 2014, which was adopted by the City Council in December,
targets a 3% increase in the number of tourists. The growth of the
services sold by the resort and tourist complex should reach 8%. Eight
tourist information centers should open in Greater Yalta, Ilash said.
