About one and a half million travelers will take Kazan following the outgoing 2013 - the corresponding figure was announced by the chairman of the Committee for External Relations and Tourism executive committee of the city Ivan Kadoshnikov

As the state official specified, the estimated size of the tourist flow is one-quarter higher than the same figure of a year ago . From this amount, 115 thousand people will come to the local river port - this is 30% more than the year before . Among the key factors that influenced such a significant growth, Mr. Kadoshnikov noted the 17th World Summer Student Games, which successfully passed in the capital of Tatarstan this past summer . In preparation for the city to the event more than 250 local guides were retrained and received accreditation for official excursions .

Kazan University received 152 new sports facilities, including 30 sports complexes, a modern railway building ala, additional metro stations and the new terminal of the International Airport

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