From January to December 2019, foreigners made 32,9 million visits to Russia. This is about the same as in 2018 - an increase is 0,98%. However, the number of foreigners visiting Russia with tourist purposes increased by 20,5% over the year and amounted up to 5,1 million people.

Almost all…

Tourist arrivals to Russia have surged by 20,5% in 2019, official figures cited by the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR).

More than five million tourists visited Russia in January-December 2019, according to ATOR’s breakdown of Federal Security Service (FSB) border service data,…

The fallout from the coronavirus has left the resort's hotels largely empty. Winter is high season for tourism around Lake Baikal in Siberia, but the coronavirus outbreak has curtailed its main source of income - Chinese holidaymakers.

They account for more than two-thirds of foreign tourists…

Tourists around the world have frequently cited difficulties with obtaining visas as a barrier to visiting Russia.

Citizens of 53 countries will be able to apply for simplified, low-cost electronic visas to visit Russia starting next year, a senior official has said in an interview.

The…

Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air plans to launch new flights from St. Petersburg Pulkovo airport in 2020, airline CEO Joseph Varadi told reporters.

"We are launching flights from June 1, 2020 to Bratislava, June 3 - to Vilnius, July 1 - to Bucharest, July 2 - to Sofia," he said.

It…

Russian tour operators have put group tours from China on hold as the country is fighting the outbreak of the coronavirus, the Russian Union of Travel Industry said in a statement, adding that Monday, January 27, has become the last day Russia accepted Chinese tourist groups.

“The Chinese…

The number of requests of foreign tourists to travel to Russia for the New Year's holidays increased by 31% in 2019, a study of the tourist metasearch Momondo showed.

Service experts analyzed the search data for economy class airline tickets to Russian cities for dates from December 26 to…

The Russian capital, which last year was the top-hashtagged city on Instagram, has been named the world’s fifth-best metropolis in a ranking of 100 major cities by Resonance Consultancy.

“Intriguing and increasingly hungry for global attention, Russia’s beguiling capital is a cultural gold…

Russia’s Far East has enormous potential – tourism experts, investors, and representatives of the authorities all agreed at the recently held Eastern Russia Tourism Week in Sakhalin, according to East Russia.

The region shows big promise and tour agents are eager to offer new itineraries,…

Apart from Moscow, the category featured such cities as London, New York, Lisbon, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Sidney, Rio de Janeiro, and others. The awards ceremony took place in the city of Muscat, Oman, on November, 28. “World Travel Awards is a quality mark, and it means that Moscow is consolidating…

The regions of Russia’s Far East could propose establishing medical tourism programs to lure in visitors from Asian countries, the CEO of Russia’s Far East Development Fund Alexei Chekunkov said.

“In the sphere of medical tourism, we have an interesting project on Sakhalin Island. There…

This was announced by Natalya Sergunina, Deputy Moscow Mayor. Visitors can learn how to use the public transport, check opening hours of city museums and theaters, and decide where to go during the New Year holidays.  Since the middle of December, the call centre provides Chinese guests with information…

Organized inbound tourist flow to Russia grew by 20% at the end of 2019, including due to the World Cup held in 2018, as Maya Lomidze, the executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia, told reporters, summing up the results of the year.

"All tour operators recognize…

The Bolshoi Theatre visit is always a very special event. During the last several years the children chore and the youth opera program of Bolshoi has performed a special Christmas Concert.  This year the 1,5-hour program included classical and modern chore creations. Piotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Rimsky…

Tourist flow to Moscow this year will set a record and will reach 25 million tourists. Such data was presented by the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, commenting on the successes of the capital in the tourism field and the recent World Travel Awards in the nomination “Best Travel Destination.…

Electronic visas and easier visa formalities for foreign visitors to the Russian Arctic are set to attract more tourists to the region, the deputy head of the country’s Federal Agency for Tourism, Sergei Korneyev told the Arctic: Today and the Future international forum on Thursday.

“We…

Trip.com Group and UnionPay International, have jointly published the “2019 Chinese Outbound Travel Consumption Report”. The report, combining big data derived from outbound travel product orders and overseas bank card…

Citizens of several countries do not need a visa to enter the Russian Federation. 
Below is the information of the Consular Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation as of January 2019 on the conditions for the entry of foreign citizens into the Russian Federation,…

The most imaginative and eye-catching stands at 40^th WTM London have been announced, with Moscow, Brazil, Cape Town and Indonesia among the winners. The winner of the ‘Best Stand Design’ award was Moscow City Tourism Committee, which was praised for its “bright colorful use of glass panels…

According to the statistics from the Border Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation, almost 4,3 million foreign tourists visited Russia from January to September 2019, which is 10,2% more than the same period a year earlier. 
Most of all travelers came from China: the tourist flow from…