The Crimean authorities have declared their readiness to receive tourists from other regions of the country. Mandatory observation for guests cancelled from 15 June, and to place them in local hotels and Inns are officially available from July 1. But to catch up with the season is unlikely to succeed, experts expect the fall in tourist flow in the Crimea by a third this year.Crimea from July 1 will start to accept tourists from other regions of the country, said the head of the Republic Sergey Aksenov. The mode isolation in the region will be completely abolished on June 15, from this point to resume work will be able to almost all areas of the business. It is expected that before July 1 of the accommodation facilities of the Crimea will take mainly residents of the Peninsula. However, a mandatory observation for those coming from other regions is also cancelled with 15 Jun. Guests will remain only a formal supervision, involving a temperature measurement upon arrival and to identify external signs of SARS.High alert on the backdrop of the spread of COVID-19 in the Crimea operates with 17 March. According to official statistics, during all the time the diagnosis was confirmed in 446 inhabitants of the Crimea and 177 residents of Sevastopol.According to the authorities of the Crimea, last year the Peninsula was visited of 7.43 million tourists. General Director of tour operator “Dolphin” Sergey Romashkin suggests that by the end of this year this figure will be reduced by 30-35%. “Collectively, may-June form 25% of the flow, but keep in mind that on the renewal of the load to an acceptable level of accommodation can only count from 15 July to some time it will take to restore demand,”— says the expert.The decision to open the hotels only for the Crimean people he calls strange: this approach will allow them to provide not more than 1% of the load. At the same time, according to Mr. Romashkina, due to the lack of a coherent policy on the removal of restrictions in the Crimea this year was noticeably lose Krasnodar Krai. “If the average usually for each application in the Crimea there are four in the Krasnodar region, this year the ratio is one to 20,” he notes.But the local business is happy that received. The Chairman of the Association of small hotels of Crimea Natalia Stambolieva explained “Kommersant” that if the tourist industry was not allowed to resume work from 1 July, it would mean “the collapse of most of the accommodation facilities”. In the current situation, according to her, many will be forced to start with a negative balance. The Executive Director of the National Union of hospitality industry (OSIG) Alexey Volkov considers that the tourist industry suffered significant losses in may-June and from 1 July will be opened definitely not all the accommodation facilities. To open the Crimea for tourists from other regions, in his opinion, one would have from June 15.The Chairman of Committee of the state Council of the Crimea for tourism, resorts and sports Alexey Chernyak said that Rospotrebnadzor is saved a long list of requirements for the various accommodation facilities, and their owners have yet to decide if they can comply with these requirements and how to increase the cost of holidays. The average cost of a night in a hotel category “three stars” with two meals, according to experts, now is 2.5–2.6 million rubles., this corresponds to the value of last year.Alexandra Mertsalova; Vadim Nikiforov, Simferopol
