It makes sense from business perspective to be friendly to tourists.
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The number of Indian tourists traveling abroad grew from 3.81 million in 1998 to 18.33 million in 2014, according to data from India’s Bureau of Immigration. This means that 1.5 per cent of the country’s population travels abroad every year. With rising income levels and changing lifestyles, the potential for growth is tremendous, given India’s huge 1.25 billion population. India has already become one of the fastest growing outbound travel markets, and, according to UNWTO predictions, India will account for 50 million outbound tourists by 2020, while the outbound tourism market may exceed US$ 40 Billion by then.
At the same time, going by this data, Russia merely accounts for 0.5 per cent of Indian tourists travelling abroad. Around 95 000 Indians visited Russia in 2015 either on tourist or business or private visas, according to Russia’s official statistics.
“The good sign is that according to the statistic from Russian foreign missions in India, the number of tourists last year has doubled since 2014,” Valery Korovkin, head of international cooperation department at Russia Tourism (Federal Agency for Tourism) told RIR.
He said that although the tourist visas accounted for just one third of the total, any person spending time in Russia for any kind of activities rather than employment or studies should be considered a tourist.
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Russia to become “India Friendly” to attract more Indian tourists
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The number of Indian tourists traveling abroad grew from 3.81 million in 1998 to 18.33 million in 2014, according to data from India’s Bureau of Immigration. This means that 1.5 per cent of the country’s population travels abroad every year. With rising income levels and changing lifestyles, the potential for growth is tremendous, given India’s huge 1.25 billion population. India has already become one of the fastest growing outbound travel markets, and, according to UNWTO predictions, India will account for 50 million outbound tourists by 2020, while the outbound tourism market may exceed US$ 40 Billion by then.
At the same time, going by this data, Russia merely accounts for 0.5 per cent of Indian tourists travelling abroad. Around 95 000 Indians visited Russia in 2015 either on tourist or business or private visas, according to Russia’s official statistics.
“The good sign is that according to the statistic from Russian foreign missions in India, the number of tourists last year has doubled since 2014,” Valery Korovkin, head of international cooperation department at Russia Tourism (Federal Agency for Tourism) told RIR.
He said that although the tourist visas accounted for just one third of the total, any person spending time in Russia for any kind of activities rather than employment or studies should be considered a tourist.
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Russia to become “India Friendly” to attract more Indian tourists