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Russia-India Move Forward With Tourism Collaboration

2016-04-12 by Aleksandr Shatskih

56th Parallel

Efforts to promote tourism in between Russia and India recently came to the forefront at a Russia Centre of Science and Culture event dubbed “Russia as a Tourist Destination”. Held on March 12th, the event set the table for a programme for development of mutual tourist traffic between Russia and the countries of Eurasian Economic Union and India.

Tags: Altai travel, Crimea travel, India tourists, Russia travel, Siberia travel

The Trouble with Russian Travel

2011-05-15 by Aleksandr Shatskih

The Moscow Kremlin

Despite Russia’s prominence as far as its proliferation of World Heritage listed cultural and natural sites goes, the country is struggling to have much of an impact on world tourism, with the travel industry accounting for just 3% of its gross domestic product. Compare that with say, Malta, whose tourist industry accounts for 35% of […]

Tags: Maslenitsa, moscow, Russia tourism, russia tourist industry, Russia travel, Russian Association of Tour Operators, Russian Union of Travel Industry, Siberia travel, Vladimir Kantorovich, world heritage listed sites, Yury Bazrykin

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