St. Petersburg's capacity for overnight visitors is rather small: 139 hotels can accommodate 36,000 people. By 2010 St. Petersburg plans to have added dozens of new hotels, yet with tourism projected to bring 5 million visitors a year by 2010, some unfortunate tourists will be well exposed to the White Nights in the high season of May and June. What the city especially lacks are two- and three-star hotels, which would be a welcome alternative to the predominance of expensive ones. More »
