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More than 5 million tourists visited St.Petersburg in 2010

00:00, 27 декабря 2010

The Head of the Investment and Strategic Projects Committee Alexey Chichkanov announced that the tourism income in St. Petersburg reached 215 billion rubles last year and the number of tourists surpassed 5 million guests.

He claims that each ruble invested in the tourism industry returns with 2000 rubles. Mr. Chichkanov underlined that the number of complaints of tourists concerning safety and security in the city dramatically reduced. The number of tourist visits can be increased by the repeaters and development of the off-season tourism. Alexey Chichkanov mentioned that nowadays 75% of tourists visit St.Petersburg within May – September period. In order to change this tendency we need to develop events and congress tourism. One of the biggest challenges for the development of such types of tourism is lack of direct flights.

Mr. Chichkanov said that from 2011 the city will use the tracking system like everywhere in the world, counting the overnights, that helps to get precise information on how many tourists visited the city, what is the daily expenditure, etc. It’s also important to bear in mind that around 30% of tourists do not stay in hotels. During the last 5 years the hotel room capacity doubled, there are 631 hotels with more than 27 thousand rooms in the city, some of them represent international hotel brands.

Vice-president of Russian Union of Travel Industry Sergey Korneev thinks that organizing various events during low season helps increasing the number of tourist visits. “Maslenitsa Festival, our Russian carnival, for example, is a very important event”, notices Mr. Korneev.

He also mentioned promotion of small and new museums. “New modern arts museum “Erarta” on Vasilievsky Island was included in the catalogues of all travel agencies as soon as it opened. Such facilities, like Loft Project Etagi also is very useful and encouraging for the development of foreign individual tourism”, mentioned Sergey Korneev. He said that within the last 5 years the city developed all attributes of a modern world tourism complex, including transport and information infrastructure. “Increasing the yield of profitability of tourism means increasing the length of the stay and tourists-repeaters. 80% of tourists return to Paris again, and St.Petersburg can reach the same level”, summarized Mr. Korneev.

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