Earlier we described the tragicomic statements of Crimean collaborators about allegedly “millions of tourists on the peninsula” as of the end of July. Let us recall that literally a week ago the criminal “Ministry of resorts and tourism of Crimea” counted “2722 thousand vacationers” at that time, and gauleiter Aksyonov stated that “the tourist flow to Crimea for 7 months of this year amounted to 3 million 280 thousand people”, which is allegedly “more than a year ago”.
At the same time, on August 6 Aksyonov was “corrected” by the aggressor’s Minister of economic development Maxim Reshetnikov, who stated that “the tourist flow to Crimea remained at last year’s figures”, and this figure “prudently” did not name any figures. Apparently, such “caution” is connected with the fact that the Kremlin sometimes reads at least those “indicators” that the occupiers voice themselves, for example – “official data” from “Krymstat”.
On August 2, this illegal institution, which is extremely difficult to accuse of “love of pessimism”, published data according to which “in January – June 2024, 480.1 thousand people allegedly “improved their health and rested in collective accommodation facilities of the republic of Crimea”.
Thus, in July 2024 alone, in order to somehow “coordinate” the declarations from Aksyonov, with his “ministry of resorts”, and these “official figures”, it was necessary to “bring in and take away” at least two million people to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, which, to put it mildly, is unrealistic. Also, “Krymstat” “threw a leg” in another figure, which speaks volumes to those knowledgeable in the resort sector, since it indicated, among other things, that the “turnover of public catering” of the occupied AR of Crimea in January-June 2024 “amounted to 10.3 billion rubles or 66.7% of the level of January-June of the previous year, in comparable prices.”
That is, the entire Crimean gross “turnover of restaurants, cafes, bars, canteens at enterprises and institutions, as well as organizations supplying catering products,” as the occupiers themselves admit, has decreased by a third this year. Let us explain to readers that it is the turnover of catering products that has always been the main and indisputable marker of the actual number of “temporarily located” in Crimea. Obviously, either “Russian tourists” went to Crimea this year, agreed to eat a third less, or, after all, someone is lying quite fantastically.
