Tourism from Russia to Kyrgyzstan grew by 15% in 2017

Bishkek, Dec. 12, 2017 /Kabar/. Agency Turstat made a rating of countries popular among Russian tourists in 2017 according to statistics of tourist trips from Russia to other countries for 9 months of the year.

Tourism from Russia to Kyrgyzstan increased by 15% or 199 thousand trips in 2017, and the number of outbound tourist trips from Russia to other countries increased by almost a third up to 31 million in 9 months of the year.

The most popular foreign countries among Russian tourists in 2017:

Turkey, 3.944 thousand (+ 717%)

Abkhazia, 3.493 thousand (+ 1%)

Finland, 2,481 thousand (+ 17%)

Kazakhstan, 2.326 thousand (+ 3.5%)

Ukraine, 1.706 thousand (+ 24%)

China, 1.478 thousand (+ 25%)

Estonia, 1,285 thousand (+ 14.5%)

Poland, 929 thousand (+ 11%)

Germany, 918 thousand (+ 19%)

Georgia, 802 thousand (+ 35%)

Spain, 794 thousand (+ 19%)

Greece, 792 thousand (+ 10%)

Cyprus, 738 thousand (+ 7%)

Italy, 713 thousand (+ 28%)

Thailand, 706 thousand (+ 26%)

Azerbaijan, 567 thousand (+ 16%)

Lithuania, 501 thousand (-8%)

Bulgaria, 463 thousand (-11%)

Tunisia, 458 thousand (-18%)

United Arab Emirates, 454 thousand (+ 41%)

France, 368 thousand (+ 22%)

Vietnam, 360 thousand (+ 37%)

Czech Republic, 358 thousand (+ 42%)

South Ossetia, 332 thousand (0%)

Latvia, 301 thousand (+ 12%)

Montenegro, 288 thousand (+ 8%)

Armenia, 279 thousand (+ 32%)

Israel, 256 thousand (+ 20%)

Moldova, 205 thousand (+ 28%)

Kyrgyzstan, 199 thousand (+ 15%)