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Russia Offers Ambitious Plan For Indian Tourists:Crimea New Hub

[Mumbai,]Russia Offers Ambitious Plan For Indian Tourists:Crimea New Hub
Russian tourism authorities have drawn up an ambitious plan to attract more Indian tourists to popular destinations like Moscow and St Petersburg and are promoting Crimea as the new tourism hub.
Katerina Belyakova of the Russian Information Center in India said.
“In 2015, the number of tourists from India to Russia was around 31,000. The possibilities to expand the tourist inflow to our country are enormous,”
Belyakova said. To Reporters “Many Indian tourist go to Europe and Asia, but regions of Russia are relatively less known,”
She said.
We are holding ‘Indo-Russian Tourism Exchange’ events for development of tourist traffic between India, Russia, and the countries of the Eurasian Economic Council, which includes a series of promotional tours for Indian travel companies in April-May this year in St. Petersburg, Moscow and the Crimea,”
She Added
Initiatives undertaken by the Indian and Russian tourism ministries and the non-commercial industry bodies aim to promote best travel destinations in their respective countries among tour operators and travel agencies to boost tourism exchange,
RIC plans to organise tours for the tourism industry to Russia to familiarise them with Russian culture and attractions,
Satish Soni, Joint MD of Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) and Sergey Kidisyuk, General Manager (India) of Aeroflot airline, were present at the first such exchange event held in Mumbai recently.