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Seven hotels in Crimea in 2013 received the status of health resorts, which generates pride in the current trend of an increase in the number of health and medical facilities in the autonomy.

Minister of Resorts and Tourism of Crimea Oleksandr Liyev said this at a press conference during the annual International Resort Exhibition “Ukraine – Year Round 2013,” which was for the first time held in Kyiv (previously in Yalta) on Oct. 11-12 as part of the II Kyiv International Tourism Forum.

“This year seven hotels have become health resorts, in particular Yalta-Intourist will open therapeutic mud baths in November. How old is this hotel? Probably it is older than others – and now it has finally found its niche and the way to expand the scope of the season,” he said.

Liyev noted that the trend in the autonomy for the last 20 years, in particular following the example of Turkey, had been reversed: new hotel complexes have opened but health centers were not created.

According to him, the status of health resorts in the current year was given to the Ripario Hotel Group hotel complex in Yalta and the Imperia hotel in Yevpatoria.

“The fact is that the trend moved in this direction and this is investment: every such object is millions of investment,” said Liyev.

He also added that the current trend leads to broadening the scope of the holiday season in general and the development of medical tourism, which is the priority for Crimea.