The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported about growth of number of tourists from Europe

For the first nine months 2023 Russian Federation gave out in the countries Europe 57% more than tourist visas, than last year, the director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs consular department Aleksey Klimov declared in interview of Federal state unitary enterprise RAMI "RIA Novosti". "From January 1 to September 30, 2023 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the countries Europe was issued by foreign institutions of 225 thousand visas of all categories, including 141 thousand tourist visas" — Aleksey Klimov told. The number of tourist visas grew by 57%, however total number of the issued visas was reduced by 10%, Aleksey Klimov noted. According to him, these indicators are far from dopandemiyny data. Aleksey Klimov cited as an example 2019...