About 35,000 Russian and foreign tourists visited Chechnya in 2013, compared with 7,000 in 2011, according to Ellina Batayeva, Head of the Chechen Governmental Committee for Tourism, Grozny Inform reports.
Four hotels opened in Chechnya in 2013, making a total of 16 in the republic. Chechen hotels have a capacity of over 1,000 rooms.
Two tourism operators in Chechnya offer 13 routes. The Central Mosque of Akhmat-Haji Kadyrov, waterfalls in Buni and Boskhoy and the Kezenoy-Am Lake are the most popular tourism sites.
Chechnya is realizing the Veduchi and Kezenoy-Am tourism projects and reviving Soviet tourism routes.
