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Nowadays, more and more people tend to plan and book their vacation using services such as Yandex.Travel, Booking.com or TripAdvisor. When most of the tourists are booking a hotel, they want to know, where the touristic center of city is located. However, it is an informal concept. In this work we conducted a survey to obtain the ground truth on what people thought to be a touristic city centre of their city, and then approximated it with the mixture of Gaussians (ellipses). Finally, we have suggested an algorithm to predict a tourist city centre location given information on hotels in that city.