Approx­i­mate­ly 15,000 tourists vis­it­ed Kam­chat­ka in 1995, 4,000 of them for­eign. Kro­not­skiy Nature Park is the only site in Rus­sia with large gey­sers, which enhances its attrac­tion for tourists (though their par­tial bur­ial in 2007 may affect this). Approx­i­mate­ly 2,500 tourists vis­it the Val­ley of the Gey­sers each year where a heli­pad and board-walk have been built and some mea­sures have been tak­en to pro­tect it from overuse by tourism (Krev­er, 1994; UNDP, 2001). There are Eco­log­i­cal Edu­ca­tion Cen­tres in both Kro­not­skiy Reserve and Naly­che­vo Park. Almost 1,200 vis­it the lat­ter, but some 15,000 use its periph­er­al areas since it is very near Petropavlovsk. About 6,000 vis­it Bystrin­sky each year, 100–150 being for­eign­ers (UNDP, 2001). Heli­copter access to tourist cab­ins with­in Naly­che­vo and South­ern Kam­chat­ka Nature Reserves is avail­able. Between 1993 and 1999 the Klyuchevskaya group aver­aged about 250–300 vis­i­tors a sum­mer, 100 being for­eign­ers, but it does not yet cater for many tourists. Projects to pro­mote eco-tourism are now under­way, part­ly to sup­ple­ment reduced gov­ern­ment fund­ing. No vis­i­tors are allowed to the reserves for a month in April to May while ani­mals are breed­ing. The reserves are nor­mal­ly reached by heli­copter along approved routes. The area’s inter­na­tion­al air­port is at Eliso­vo.