The law concerning the marriage in two days has been lobbying in Smolny.

“Approving of the bill, adoption of this law about the registration of the marriage in two days after applying of the documents will add some extra romantic halo to the city and will attract the people from all over the world and they will have a strong motive for visiting St. Petersburg more than once,” announced Alexey Chichkanov, the Head of the Investments and Strategic Projects.

There are a lot of plans in St. Petersburg: increasing of the number of the repeated tourists, increasing of the number of the paid services for the guests in two times, development of the pilgrimage journeys and art tourism. Some investments will be made for the safety measures for the Russian tourists and the foreigners.

In 2010 the volume of the tourist flow in St. Petersburg exceeded 5 million people. According to the new program of the development of the tourism, it’s planning to increase such indicator up to 8 million. source: atorus.ru