Companies@UA: База компаний Украины

Simferopol, August 4 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The number of tourists visiting Crimea in January-July 2009 has dropped by 12.6% compared to the same period last year, the press service of the Resorts and Tourism Ministry of Crimea has reported.

According to the officials, some 2.7 million people visited the peninsula in the first seven months of 2009, the number being 3.089 million in January-July 2008.

The officials said that 21.9% less people visited Crimean recreation facilities this year.