Rosturizm chief Russia-China tourism cooperation has great potential

Mar 19, 2013 MOSCOW, Russia – Russia-China cooperation on tourism has witnessed substantial progress in recent years, with greater potential to be explored, Alexander Radkov, head of Russian Federal Agency for Tourism (Rosturizm) has said. “The number of Chinese visitors to Russia saw a quadruple growth in the last five years. Especially in 2012, thanks to the ‘The Year of Russian Tourism’ in China, it achieved a rise of 47 percent to 343,000,” Radkov told Xinhua in an interview conducted ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia. The two neighboring countries have initiated o…

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