News: Russia’s poor image abroad holds back inbound tourism
Russia’s poor image overseas is holding back its inbound tourism industry’s ability to draw visitors from the U.S. and western Europe, reveals new research at WTM Vision Conference – Moscow today. Inbound tourism arrivals in 2012 showed solid growth to succeed in 26 million, in keeping with Euromonitor International. However, the research company’s Senior Research Analyst Mantas Kaluina will tell WTM Vision Conference – Moscow delegates Russia continues to be reliant on visitors from neighbouring countries and the industry must work on tourism flows from the usa and Western Europe. Visa bureaucracy, security, infrastructure and the standard of tourism services contributed to Russia’s poor image overseas, he added. The Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan accounted for almost half all visitors, sending around six million, three million and two million respectively. Waiting...
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