In 2024, the number of tourist trips to Russia increased by more than 10%, even by increasing the number of foreign tourists in a third, said the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Resurtnikov at a meeting of the Ministry Board. This was informed to RB.RU in the department’s press service.
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Rostat updated data on the number of tourist trips will be published at the end of March. The Ministry of Economic Development expects the total number of trips to exceed 91 million previously predicted.
According to Reschetnikov, the regions of the Cechena, Tuva, Ulyanovsk and Ryazan Republic, where growth amounted to more than 35%, demonstrated especially high growth rates.
The most popular area was Moscow. The number of travelers left in the capital’s hotels increased by 7.6%, to 12.1 million Krasnodar territory showed an increase of 14.4%, of 10 million tourists, and St. Petersburg took the third Place with 6.4 million visitors, which is 23.2%more compared to last year.
At the beginning of January, the Vice President of the Russian government, Dmitry Chernyshenko, announced a “record” tourist flow in 2024 in Russia. According to him, for 11 months of 2024, Russians and foreign tourists were 72.9 million tourist trips to Russia, which is 11% more than in the same period of 2023.
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