Over one million Russians have visited Crimea since the beginning of 2011, Deputy Chairman of the Crimean Council of Ministers and Crimean Resorts and Tourism Minister Heorhiy Psariov has said.
"We hope that Russians will continue to come to Crimea this autumn," he said at a press conference at Interfax’s central office in Moscow on Monday.
Psariov said that the number of tourists in Crimea reached the pre-crisis figure last year.
The total number of tourists who visited Crimea in 2010 was six million, of which 70% were citizens of Ukraine, he said.
"Next in the ranking of the tourists who come to us are Russians, Belarusians, and tourists from the CIS and European countries," he said, adding that in 2010 the number of tourists from Russia grew by 15%.
