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Tourist flow from Kyrgyzstan to Russia unveiled

Kyrgyzstan Materials 9 February 2023 13:17 (UTC +04:00)
Tourist flow from Kyrgyzstan to Russia unveiled
Alyona Pavlenko
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BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 9. The number of tourist visits from Kyrgyzstan to Russia amounted to 6,600 in 2022, Trend reports via the Association of Tour Operators in Russia (ATOR).

According to the ATOR, overall some 200,100 tourist visits were made to Russia in 2022, which is a decrease of 4.9 million or 25.3 times compared to the pre-pandemic 2019. In 2021, the foreign tourist flow to Russia reached 288,300 trips.

Germany ranked first in the terms of tourist flow to Russia, German citizens conducted 25,400 visits to that country. The second place takes Türkiye with 22,600 visits, followed by Iran (14,600 visits).

The total number of visits from Kyrgyzstan to Russia for any purpose (tourism, work, study, private purposes, and transport companies’ personnel) amounted to 886,600 in 2022.

The overall number of foreigners traveling to Russia made up 13.1 million which is an increase, compared to 2021 (12.1 billion).

According to the Kyrgyz Department of Tourism of the Ministry of Culture, from January through September 2022 around 5 million tourists visited Kyrgyzstan. Most of them came from Uzbekistan (3 million tourists), Kazakhstan (1.2 million tourists), and Russia (500,000 tourists).

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