List of operators that will cooperate with China without a visa has been approved

More than three hundred and sixty tour operators of the Russian Federation will be able to carry out visa-free exchange with China. Some of the tourist organizations will exchange groups of travelers with the People's Republic of China for the first time in their practice. Thirty-nine regions of the Russian Federation are involved. The number of Moscow and St. Petersburg tour operators has doubled, and companies from Crimea have also been connected.Every year the flow of travelers from China to Russia increases. Thus, in 2015 the number of visitors from the Asian country to the Russian Federation exceeded one million. And in the first half of this year the number of visiting Chinese increased by fifty percent compared to the same period in 2015. One hundred thirty thousand Chinese people came to Russia, and about ninety thousand Russian tourists went to China.Many believe that the introduction of a visa-free regime for Chinese in Russia will contribute to improving the service to foreigners and increasing the tourist flow between the said countries. A visa-free regime is great news for those who have long dreamed of visit China.