Extremals In Crimea

• Ondriy Klimenko
• 7.08.2023, 12:57

On what is happening to tourism in the occupied peninsula.

During the first two months of the 2023 summer holiday season, at least 39 drone and missile attacks on military and infrastructure facilities took place in occupied Crimea. 10 of them had a direct impact on transport traffic - road and/or rail.

It is noteworthy that Crimea's main resort and tourist region - the South Coast, i.e. Great Yalta and Great Alushta - is not on the map of aerial attacks. However, this does not mean that Russian tourists there feel safe.

The authors, who from their own long experience know how the embankments and squares of the main resort towns of the Crimean peninsula look during the high season, confidently conclude that in 2023 there is simply no mass tourist flow in Crimea.

Moreover, there is every reason to assume that in the coming days there may be a significant outflow of those tourists who dared to plan a holiday in occupied Crimea during the war or send their children to the peninsula (who automatically assumed the role of a "human shield").

When you come across official estimates of the tourist flow to Crimea in the media, you need to understand that they are propaganda in nature and are overstated by two or three or even four times.

The real size of the tourist flow in the occupied peninsula in 2022 can be estimated at up to 1.5 million people, and in the current year 2023 it can be estimated at up to 1 million people in annual terms (provided that the 2023 season still continues in the form of "extreme tourism under fire").

Ondriy Klimenko, Facebook