“In August, despite the toughened settlement rules, the hotel stock in all the main resort areas of the Krasnodar Territory remains high,” a statement posted on the administration’s website says.

It is noted that "the occupancy rate of accommodation facilities in Sochi is now 77%, in Anapa - 80%, in Gelendzhik - 86%."

Earlier, the chairman of the Committee for the Development of Tourism of St. Petersburg, Sergei Korneev, in an interview with "Nevskie Novosti" spoke about the impact of the pandemic on the tourism industry.