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Alexander Radkov, head of the Federal Tourism Agency
We see that all the flows - domestic, incoming and outcoming - are growing.
The domestic flow growth makes up about 6 to 8%.
I think the incoming number of international arrivals will grow about 10%, outgoing - around 15%.
In the past year we have implemented a lot of projects under the program for the development of domestic tourism.
Last year's program included construction of 46 facilities of infrastructure
in 22 clusters in 17 subjects of the Russian Federation.
Total funding from the federal budget amounted to 2,487 million rubles.
This year we have planned to increase the funding.
The total funding from the federal budget provided for this year amounts to 4,359 million.
I can say that investors are actively engaged in tourism projects.
Last year 8.252 billion was drawn from extra-budgetary sources for infrastructure development
within the framework of the federal program.
Those were private investments.
As for tourist arrivals... The trend is not bad.
We are seeing an increase in tourist traffic.
Bookings in Russia increased by 25%.
I mean, among foreign citizens.
In the first place is the US, with an increase of 47%.
China has 120%. Canada - 41%. France - 22%. On average, as I have already mentioned, 26%.
What was mostly booked? Moscow, then St. Petersburg, Krasnodar region - 71% growth, mainly thanks to the upcoming Olympics.
Moscow region - 56% of bookings among the users of Tripadvisor. Tatarstan - 49%.
To date we have 4642 tourist agencies on the federal register of tour operators.
1909 of them work in external tourism.
Last year we had no major scandals involving bankruptcies.
However, there were about a dozen bankruptcy cases.
We can recall "Orient Express", "North", "Blue Bird" and so on.
The association "Turpomosch" has not been involved financially.
Not a penny has been spent on the export of tourists.
Nevertheless, the association worked.
It organized the transfer of 264 people without using the compensation fund.
Over the course of 2013 Turpomosch lawyers received nine thousand calls and responded to 17 thousand letters.
The Christmas holidays in general were fairly calm.
The only problem was the story of Eviterra, cancellation of tickets for quite a large number of passengers.
According to the Federal Air Transport Agency, in the period from December 28 to January 8 Moscow airports served
2083 thousand passengers, exceeding last year's figures by more than 20%.
In total, over the New Year's holidays Russian and foreign airlines made 20.5 thousand regular and charter flights.
The main destinations were skiing in Europe and Southeast Asia, especially Thailand.