Is Russia going to lose it's tourism?

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Mendeleyev

No, in reality Russia is a beautiful place to visit and there is lots of culture and history here. Most Russian people are very kind and considerate.

Cossak

Heil Putin!!!!

Dmitry

Nonsenses!
Problem strongly exaggeration.
If there are attacks because of xenophobia, in relation to illegal immigrants, instead of tourists.
About neo-Nazis in general nonsense.

The tourism main problems:
Bad level of development of a tourist infrastructure.
Bad level of development of ground transport.
Expensive hotels.
The visa is necessary.

Squeaky P

not really possible to lose tourism because its one of the best places in the world to visit, even with the problems Dimitry citied. The falling ruble only makes it more attractive because the prices in dollars are getting cheap again. I hope it never gets too easy to visit because I like it when no other tourists are around.

Breezy

who on earth thinks, "hey I have lots of money, lets go to the motha land!"???? not me, I'm going to florida to scratch my balls on the beach

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I hold rather strong suspicions that these acts to which you speak occur with such infrequency that they are virtually non-existant when compared to the number of racially motivated crimes occurring each week, each month, each year in USA.

blacksheep_hellishot

not only are they going to lose that big money making tourism jazz, they are now going to take the next step into becoming a 100% pro 1938 Nazi mirror image of old Germany.

Matt G

I find it so ironic, what the Israeli person above me wrote.

Holiday in Gaza anyone?

Future Citizen of Forvik

I didn't know about the Nazis there, but I was already scared to go because of the government and the mafia. I will look at pictures thank you very much.

Will B

An interesting and sad question. Having spent the past 12 summers traveling to the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia I hope that this is not going to happen. My experiences in Russia both as a businessman and tourist have more or less been wonderful. Certainly they are culturally different than we are but overall the Russian people have the exact same hopes and dreams as everyone else on this planet.
In all the years I have never once felt unsafe or been worried about the mafia, they don't care about tourists, that is not where the money is. Frankly we as Americans do ourselves a giant disservice by being so ethnocentric and not embracing the wonderful opportunities that Russia has to offer as a destination. Places like Kamchatka are absolutely spectacular and will only be saved by tourism dollars.
It is always interesting to me when I come back to the states and see the way we live, easy soft lives. Unfortunately as Americans we have been just as susceptible to propaganda as the Russians are currently and certainly far more susceptible than they were under the Soviets. I own a travel business which takes people to Russia, so perhaps I am jaded. I have also traveled to many other points on the globe and each year there is no place I would rather be than the incredible wilderness of Kamchatka.

Keith B

It may keep some away. The biggest problem really is the expense and difficulty to visit Russia. You need a visa and an invitation (thank God for the Internet). Travel is slow and expensive. Moscow is so huge and crowded and expensive. I never felt unsafe there. The people are wonderful and there is a lot of history there. But I think there is more to see and do for less money in western europe. That I think is the biggest problem with tourism in Russia.

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