The new easy and cost-effective e-visa system was launched on 1 October (the same day Wizz air company began its service between London Luton and Pulkovo Airport). The e-visa is valid for travel to St Petersburg and the nearby Leningrad region. Passengers can apply for the visa online up to four days…

Japanese tourists for the first time have visited the Kurils, an island chain that disputed between Tokyo and Moscow for over 70 years, Sakhalin.info reported. 
President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have met many times, most recently in September. The pair have discussed…

From Tuesday, October 1, 53 nationalities can apply for a free e-visa to visit the Russian city of St Petersburg and the neighbouring Leningrad region, Travel Daily Media reports. 
According to officials, the e-visa is issued within “four calendar days, including week-ends and bank holidays.”…

Russian President Vladimir Putin encharged the Government and ministries with a task to ensure the introduction of an electronic visa for foreign citizens to enter Russia from 2021. We are talking about tourist, business, humanitarian and guest visas. Currently, an electronic visa is available only…

The 4-way agreement about the creation of a new resort around the volcanoes Mutnovskiy, Viluchinskiy and Goreliy in Kamchatka region was signed during the V Eastern economic forum in Russia. The “Interros” group of Vladimir Potanin and the structures of Sergey Bachin (“Roza Khutor” CEO) have registered…

A Russian travel association uniting some 200 companies working with the Chinese tourism market, said on Sunday it expects Chinese tourists to spend more than 72 billion rubles ($1.1 billion) in Russia in 2019. 

World Without Borders, based it forecast on the Bank of Russia’s official statistics…

The total flow of foreign citizens into Russia in the first half of 2019 practically did not increase - the annual growth amounted to 0,78%. But, the tourist flow of classical tourists from Europe and Asia is growing rapidly.  

The border service of the FSB (the Russian Federal Security…

In a move seen as a response to growing interest in tourist exploration above the Arctic Circle, Russia is opening a tourism center at the end of this month in the remote Franz Josef Land archipelago, the Barents Observer reports. 

The visitor center is located on Guker Island, one of the…

Russian and Japanese tour operators and tourism authorities are joining efforts to increase the number of yearly visits to the Southern Kuril Islands of Kunashir and Iturup, BigAsia.ru reported citing the Russian Federal Tourism Agency (Rosturizm). 

According to the head of Rosturizm, Zarina…

Tourdom.ru has arranged the poll about the desire to buy TO stocks among its readers. More than 52% among 450 persons (August, 14) are ready to buy them.  

The pushing news for the poll was the information about Lilia Rodionova - the Russian new investor of Thomas Cook Group. And that was…

August,8 in Federal Tourist Agency (Rostourism) the meeting of Russian and Japanese tourists’ authorities representatives and tour operators took place. The questions of organization of joint activities on the Kurile Islands Kunashir and Iturup were discussed there.   

During the discussion…

Every year the Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival crowns the end of the summer season in Moscow. One of the largest international cultural events in Russia, the Festival has no peers in terms of scope, content, and effect produced.  

Over the twelve years of its history,…

According to Amadeus statistics, in the first half of 2019, China, Germany, South Korea, Israel and Italy were among the five leaders of the source markets for Russia. 

Amadeus experts studied the dynamics of inbound flow into Russia for the first half of 2019. According to the company,…

The Russian government has ambitious plans to invest around $1.6 billion in the next few years to attract more tourists and become one of the world’s top 10 travel destinations. The latest incentives include eased visa restrictions and tours off the beaten track. 

Nearly 25 million tourists…

Kazan is considered to be the 3-d Russian capital and this year Kazan is really the 3-d popular Russian city after Moscow and Saint-Petersburg for august trips according to Russian housing booking service Tvil.ru. The active development of tourist infrastructure takes place not only in the city itself,…

On July, 18, 2019 Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that foreign citizens will get the opportunity to enter Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad region by means of E-visas. Now the same right is used in the Far East and Kaliningrad regions. 

This process started in Russia on September,…

In 2018 the undisputed leader of payments made by Chinese tourists in the AliPay system in Russia became cosmetics shops with an average check of 7,268 Rubles (102 Euros). On the second position are department stores with an average amount for one purchase of 33,100 Rubles (464 Euros). Such data were…

The number of tourists from the United States to Russia has steadily increased since relations between the two countries began to deteriorate in 2014, the Izvestia newspaper reports citing data from Russia’s Federal Security Agency (FSB). 

Almost 1.4 million American citizens have visited…

According to the Border Service of the Federal Security Service of Russia, from January to March 2019 6.4 million foreigners visited the Russian Federation, which is 1.6% more than in the first quarter of 2018. Of these, 469.9 thousand people indicated tourism as the purpose of their visit. This is…