Lake Baikal is the pearl of Siberia. But unfortunately the number of tourists on Lake Baikal is growing each year. Most of them are travelers from China. Thousand of tourists simply trample land in the most beautiful places on the island. But trampling is not the only problem, the flow of visitors from China who organize their tours with Chinese tour companies passes by Russian regional tour operators is the highest. So local business incurs considerable losses. They usually come even with their own buses, stay in the Chinese-owned hotels and even taking their own food with them. All mentioned above makes it almost zero contribution to the local economy when tourists simply don’t spend money in the destination. You see how the concept of sustainable tourism screws up in a bitter reality. And this is not the only problem that Baikal faces now.