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Tourism continues to decline

May 13, 2009
By Ashley Brettell

TOUGH TIMES: The general manager of Go Hotel Shnelli said the second quarter would be just as difficult as the first and that current hotel prices were probably unsustainable in the long term.
TALLINN - Statistics Estonia has reported that the number of days tourists spent in accommodation establishments has fallen by 14 percent in the first quarter compared to the previous year. According to Statistics Estonia, in the 1st quarter 359,000 foreign tourists utilized accommodation services such as hotels and hostels. Of these tourists, 165,000 were domestic tourists and 194,000 foreign tourists.  More than half of all tourists came from Finland. The decline was reasonably cons ...

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