The number of tours from Kyrgyzstan to Russia was 313 thousand for the first nine months of 2018, which is 6.5% more than a year earlier, reports Analytical agency TurStat.
The agency presented the ranking of countries for inbound tourism in Russia in 2018, analyzing the statistics of inbound tourism in Russia for the first 9 months of the year.
Kyrgyzstan - in the top 15 countries of foreigners in Russia.
Inbound tourism in Russia in 2018 has grown largely due to tourists from Southeast Asia and Europe thanks to the 2018 World Cup.
According to TourStat, China and South Korea took the first two places in the absolute increase in the number of incoming tourist trips to Russia in 2018. The number of tours from China increased by 170 thousand in the first 9 months of the year compared to last year, and from South Korea - by 85 thousand more trips than in 2017.