Russia, India working on visa-free group tours
Russia is also preparing to cancel visas with a number of countries of the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov noted.
Russia and India are working on the start of the visa-free group tourist exchange between the countries, Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov said at a plenary session of the BRICS Tourism Forum.
"Group tour exchanges are a tool of simplifying issues with visas, owing to which we have two problems existing, with China <…> and we also launched this program with Iran. It gave a very strong effect - 450,000 mutual tourist trips. <…> We are also proactively discussing this mechanism with our Indian friends," Reshetnikov said.
Russia is also preparing to cancel visas with a number of countries of the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, the minister noted. Electronic visas to Russia were launched last year, Reshetnikov added.
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Russia and India are working on the start of the visa-free group tourist exchange between the countries, Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov said at a plenary session of the BRICS Tourism Forum.
"Group tour exchanges are a tool of simplifying issues with visas, owing to which we have two problems existing, with China <…> and we also launched this program with Iran. It gave a very strong effect - 450,000 mutual tourist trips. <…> We are also proactively discussing this mechanism with our Indian friends," Reshetnikov said.
Russia is also preparing to cancel visas with a number of countries of the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, the minister noted. Electronic visas to Russia were launched last year, Reshetnikov added.
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