Primorye gambling zone visitor numbers rise in 2024

The Russian gambling zone received 763,180 visitors in 2024.

Russia.- The Development Corporation of Primorsky Region JSC has reported that the Primorye gambling zone in Russia’s far east received 763,180 visitors in 2024. The figure was up 17 per cent in year-on-year terms.

The highest number of arrivals was recorded in November (more than 70,715). Some 14 per cent were identified as foreign tourists, primarily from Uzbekistan (over 47,000).

Julia Yakush, head of the investment project department at Primorsky Krai Development, said that despite economic and geopolitical challenges and the lack of international flights to Primorye, annual visitor numbers had seen a fourth consecutive year of growth, reaching 2.6 times higher than in 2019, pre-pandemic.

There are two casinos in the Primorye Gambling Zone. Summit Ascent’s Tigre de Cristal opened in 2015. It was followed by Shambhala, which opened at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Last August, shareholders of LET Group Holdings approved a proposal to sell Tigre de Cristal.

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