Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 10
By Fikret Dolukhanov – Trend:
Number of Russian tourists visiting Uzbekistan increased by 23 percent compared to 2017 and reached 114,000 people, Trend reports referring to Russia’s TurStat analytic agency
TurStat published rating of countries by number of Russian tourists in 2018 after studying statistics of outbound tourist trips for nine months of 2018.
The total number of outbound trips from Russia increased by six percent compared to 2017 and reached 32.9 million people.
Uzbekistan was visited by four million tourists in 2018 thanks to the implementation of the simplified visa issuing for citizens of 39 countries and e-visas.
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