Foreign tourists spent a billion dollars to Russia for a year.

KommentariiPriehali02.02.2009Finansovy crisis caused painful blow to Russian turindustriiObschy volume of services provided to foreign nationals with Russia in 2008, previously estimated at one billion dollars. As reported by Interfax, said the head of the management of the development of domestic tourism and state tourism projects Rosturizma Alexander Sirchenko. Russian tourists have left abroad for about 10 billion dollars.
In total last year in Russia was visited by 2,5 million people, while the number of Russians, vyezhavshih abroad amounted to 11 million people. Rosturizma According to statistics published on the site office for the first nine months of 2008 Russia was visited 1.9 million tourists. The number of Russians traveling abroad, amounted to nine million people.
According to Sirchenko, 10-fold difference in spending significantly reduces the development of the Russian tourist complex. However, he stressed the need to adopt a set of measures to promote domestic and inbound tourism.
Meanwhile, 2008 has been difficult for the Russian tourist industry. According to the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RST), in 2008 the domestic market have gone from 5 per cent of tour operators and 10 percent of travel agencies. The works in the sector lost 15 per cent of the staff.