The World Figure Skating Championship won’t cause the inrush of the tourists to Moscow. Such information was announced by the tour operators specializing in inbound tourism.

Moscow will host the World Figure Skating Championship from April 25 till May 1, 2011. The competition supposed to take place in Japan, but after the earthquake it was planned to change the place of the Championship.

Sergey Sobyanin, the Mayor of Moscow gave orders to provide extra funds for organization of the event. According to the estimates of the Deputy Mayor Aleksandr Gorbenko, about 5 thousand tourists, 1.5 thousand official representatives of the delegations and 700 journalists will visit the Championship.

The forecasts of the tour operators are less optimistic. “The figure skating is not a mass type of sport. Only relatives and friends of the participants will visit the competition. Notmorethan1000 people. We can’t call such number a real “influx”, said Aleksandr Maklyarovskiy, KMP Group.

According to the experts, there won’t be any problems with the accommodation during the Championship. According to Leonid Isakovitch, General Director of Academservice, the period from the end of April till the beginning of May is traditionally a low season in Moscow hotels, the occupancy during these dates doesn’t usually exceeds 10%. In general, it’s possible to accommodate 100-120 thousand people in Moscow hotels and if it’s necessary there is also accommodation in Moscow region’s health resorts.

It’s interesting to note that the experts don’t deny the possibility of the rise in price of the accommodation in Moscow. At any rate, the hotels won’t offer seasonal discount of 10-20%. atorus.ru