Kuban expects to receive up to 22 million tourists annually by 2030

Krasnodar Krai expects to increase the annual tourist flow to 21-22 million people by 2029-2030. Such plans at the meeting of the Stolypin club announced the Minister of economy of the region Alexei Yurtayev, reports “Kommersant – Kuban”.

According to the minister, by the end of 2026, the region expects to receive about 18 million tourists. For further development of the industry in the region are implementing investment projects for the construction of hotels and sanatoriums. Their total cost exceeds 800 billion rubles.

Yurtayev believes that there is no shortage of tourist infrastructure in the region. At the same time, the main limitation for the development of the industry, he called the transport accessibility of resorts. In particular, we are talking about the operation of airports, restrictions on the use of airspace and high load on rail transport.

Recall that Krasnodar, Sochi and Anapa entered the top ten popular destinations for trips by companies in November. According to the booking service "Tvil.ru", Krasnodar took third place in the ranking, Sochi - fifth, and Anapa - eighth.