In H1 2009, Belarusian health resorts received 699,300 people, it was learnt from Viktor Yakovenko, director of the tourism department of the Belarusian Ministry of Sport and Tourism.

According to him, 7% of the total number of resorts’ visitors (51,300 people) was foreigners. To compare: during the same period last year, 40,200 foreigners had rest in the Belarusian resorts.

According to the source, all in all, over the six months this year, 2.67 million foreign tourists visited Belarus. The same number of Belarusians – 2.69 million – visited foreign countries.

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