Increase of tourist's arrivals to Russia in 2015 will exceed 5%

At the end of 2015, inbound tourist flow to Russia will increase by more than 5% compared to the last year, the deputy head of the Federal Tourism Agency Sergei Korneev said. Earlier, citing data from the Federal State Statistics Service, it was reported that in the first half of 2015 the number of trips to Russia for tourism purposes from abroad amounted to 1.1 million, which is 4.6% higher than a year earlier. Sergei Korneev noticed that Asian region shows the biggest increase, and from European countries we also expect slight increase.