Rosturizm expects the growth of inbound tourist flow in Russia in 2019 by 10%
The Federal Agency for Tourism (Rosturizm) believes that the incoming tourist flow to Russia in 2019 may increase by at least 10% compared to 2018.
Oleg Safonov, head of Rostourism: We still predict that tourist arrivals to Russia in 2019 will increase by 10%. I would like to inform you that foreign experts give forecasts for growth of 14-18% on this indicator, but we are more conservative and realistically count on 10%.
After the end of the World Cup, there was information that during the World Cup, a total of 5 million travelers were able to come to the cities where the competitions took place. In Moscow visited 3 million people – about as many usually happens in the city for two months, Saransk received more than 200 thousand guests of the world Cup – this is more than in 2017 completely. 110,000 travelers came to Volgograd, including 50,000 foreign guests.