Bashkiria formed seven recreational clusters for the development of domestic tourism.

The Sverdlovsk region signed an agreement on expanding cooperation in the sphere of tourism with the Republic of Belarus.

Taimyr Airlines opened regular charter flights from Vladivostok to the South China Hainan Island (Haikou City).

In 2017, the authorities of Bashkiria expect to increase the tourist flow by 21.4% - up to 1.7 million people.

UTair Airlines will operate daily scheduled flights from Moscow to Munich, Berlin and Vienna.

In January 2017, Turkey was visited by 40.1 thousand Russian tourists.

Visa centres were opened in Saratov, Voronezh, Samara, Ufa, Krasnoyarsk, Perm, Nizhny Novgorod and Krasnodar.

Almost 900 thousand of Russian tourists have come in Greece in the year 2016, which is 30 percent more than a year earlier.

The first test flight on the new route was conducted by “Rossiya” on March 5, 2017.

The Federal Tourism Agency of Russia has concluded agreements on granting of subsidies from the federal budget to 22 entities of the Russian Federation for the implementation of the Federal Program titled “Development of Domestic and Inbound Tourism (2011-2018)” for the year 2017.