More than 1 million Chinese tourists visited Russia in the last six months.

It has been a year since Russia and China resumed visa-free travel for tourist groups of 5 people or more. The innovation has increased tourist flow by 30-40%: in 2023 about 470 thousand Chinese visited Russia, this year up to 2.5 million tourists from China are expected.

The new system opens up great prospects for Russian business in tourism, and also makes travelling for brotherly nations cheaper by 20-30%. So far, groups of 5 to 50 people can travel without a visa, but in 2025, according to the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the regime will become available for groups of 3 people and the period of stay will increase to 21 days.

On November 13-15 at the Rostki forum experts from Russia and China will discuss the prospects for the development of recreational potential, as well as the possibility of investment cooperation in the development of tourism.