About 2.4 million tourists visited Kazan since the beginning of the year

(KZN.RU, December 12, Mikhail Chentsov). About 2.4 million tourists visited Kazan for the first 11 months of 2016, which allowed the capital of Tatarstan to enter the top three most popular cities of the country for recreation in the New Year’s holidays. Daria Sannikova, the director of Tourism Promotion Committee of Kazan, said this today at the Business Monday.

According to her, residents of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, as well as the nearby cities such as Yoshkar-Ola, Ulyanovsk and Samara were the most frequent visitors to the capital of Tatarstan. Tourists book rooms in hotels for 3.5 days in average for the price of 3100 rubles per day.

D. Sannikova also said that a series of colorful events are waiting for residents and guests of Kazan on the eve of and during the Christmas holidays. Many New Year's tourist facilities are already working. The “Yurkin park. Ice Age” works on the territory of the “Kazan Arena”. In addition to the ice rink with free rental skates for all comers, 10-meter hill, the route for the winter races on studded carts, buggy and ATVs hire, as well as the residence of Ded Moroz will be opened in the park.

The new Ferris wheel “Around the World” will become another center of attraction for tourists. The attraction works all year round due to the heat-insulated booths and air heating system. More than 30 thousand people have already visited the wheel since the opening.

The special calendar of interesting events, which will take place in the New Year's holidays and in 2017, was developed in preparation for the New Year's events in Kazan. “It has already been distributed to all tour operators and hotels in the city, and is also available to the public on a portal gokazan.ru”, she concluded.

I. Metshin thanked the representatives of the tourist business for work and cooperation, noting the increase in the quality of their services. He noted that much work has been done in the city and a palette of activities for every taste is available to people, beginning with New Year events and ending with the period of the Christmas holidays. “We hope all this will result in a good mood, high-quality tourist services and good impressions of our guests on New Year's Kazan”, said the Mayor of the city, adding that work on the development of the tourism industry will continue.

“We must continue to work and welcome guests like the first time. The past left in the last year, a new flow of tourists will be this year, and a lot of work awaits all of us, for everything will be at a decent level, especially for the residents of Kazan and at the same time for the guests of the capital”, concluded the Mayor.