Vacationers are forcibly brought to Crimea - Poroshenko representative
There are practically no tourists in Russian Crimea, the beaches are empty, and Ukrainian citizens who come to the peninsula are not vacationers.
This was stated on the air of the "Pryamoy" TV channel by "representative of the Ukrainian president in Crimea" Boris Babin, reports a correspondent of "PolitNavigator".
According to the official, only one and a half million people vacationed on the peninsula this year, and those were brought by plane almost forcibly.
“Now there are approximately one and a half million people, up to two, a significant number of whom are organized tourists who, as in Soviet times, are brought in by plane for a sanatorium-resort holiday and do not bring investment. Ukrainian vacationers have decreased by an order of magnitude. For the year, official reports, crossing the administrative border, those who have tourist motives, well, 200-300 thousand. And then, a significant part of them are those who have real estate and a family. This is not a tourist. There are no queues at the checkpoint,” says Babin.
Vacationers are being forcibly transported to Crimea, says Poroshenko's representative.