Wednesday, June 19, 2024 Russian tourism is still tightening for ‘special military operation’. Europe and Russia are tightening a lot over travelling within the region since the ‘special military operation’ began late February 2022. Long before that, it was the coronavirus pandemic that controlled travel and tourism for two years.
Now the situation for travel and tourism business is still tightening as the United States and European visa regulations have changed, thus pushes Russian tourists for popular destinations mainly in Asia. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s lengthy address, at the opening ceremony of the Russian-Chinese Expo and the 4th Russian-Chinese Interregional Cooperation Forum, has increasingly expressed confidence in further strengthening of the Russian-Chinese strategic alliance. Putin’s official working trip May 16 to 17 has consolidated the relationship, offers more possibility of Chinese travelling to Russia.
In a similar direction, President Xi Jinping is also encouraging more Chinese corporate business executives and potential tourists to undertake frequent visit to strengthen business contacts and people-to-people interaction. The Russian Economic Development Ministry expects that mutual travel between Russia and China should grow to 2 million people in 2024, Economic Development Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said. “Mutual travel between Russia and China exceeded 1.
2 million trips last year. China is leading among the countries outside of th.
