For comparison: in the first four months of 2023, 1.42 million trips by foreign tourists to Russia were recorded. In total, according to the results of last year, the flow of incoming tourists amounted to 8.21 million.
The leaders in tourist flow in the Russian Federation, excluding the CIS countries, were Abkhazia (750 thousand trips), China (477 thousand), Mongolia (287 thousand), South Ossetia (169 thousand) and Georgia (117 thousand ). Union countries most frequently In total, tourists come to Russia from Estonia (107 thousand), Germany (98 thousand) and Finland (66 thousand).
According to the FSB border service, in January-December 2023, foreign tourists visited Russia 670.7 thousand times, 3.5 times more than the previous year. Foreigners came to the Russian Federation mainly from neighboring countries. The leaders in terms of entry were the citizens of Kazakhstan.