By 2030, Crimea plans to receive about 10 million tourists

In order to further develop the sanatorium-resort and tourist complex, work has begun on creating a strategy for the development of tourism in the Republic of Crimea until 2036. We invited all health resorts, hotels, tourism enterprises, educational institutions, the scientific and public community, all caring Crimeans to this work“, the minister noted.

According to the minister, as part of the work to develop the tourism sector until 2036, it is planned to focus on ensuring the comprehensive development of the tourist territories of the Republic of Crimea. Including the creation of engineering infrastructure facilities and tourist complexes, the development of promising types of tourism for the region that are not subject to seasonal fluctuations, including medical and recreational, cultural and educational, event, rural, environmental, active types of tourism, the implementation of a program for targeted loading of sanatoriums -resort organizations in the low season, including through the rehabilitation of SVO participants and their family members, as well as citizens of preferential categories of historical regions of the Russian Federation, harmonious integration into the legal field of activities of small and individual accommodation facilities, development and implementation of a program for the modernization and reconstruction of sanatoriums state form of ownership of the Republic of Crimea.

To ensure the comprehensive development of the sanatorium-resort and tourism sectors, within the framework of the Russian state program “Socio-economic development of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol”, work is underway to create 5 tourist and recreational clusters in the cities of Evpatoria, Koktebel, Saki, in the Leninsky and Black Sea regions. Clusters will be created until 2027.

As part of the federal project “Five Seas and Lake Baikal” in the Saki-Evpatoria region, work is underway to create a federal year-round seaside resort “Golden Sands of Russia”. In particular, it is planned to create 18 3-5 star hotels with a total capacity of 5.3 thousand rooms, year-round tourist infrastructure facilities: heated swimming pools, sports facilities, thermal and medical complexes, an all-season water park, an exhibition center, a thematic museum near the monument to paratroopers.

The largest embankment in Crimea, 12 km long, will be created on the coastline. It is planned to improve more than 45 hectares of modern beach areas. It is planned to create more than 4.3 thousand jobs, the expected additional tourist flow will be more than 1 million tourists per year, — said Sergei Ganziy.

source: press service of the Ministry of Resorts and Tourism of the Republic of Crimea