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Dmitry Chernyshenko during a working trip to Arkhangelsk and the Solovetsky Islands in the Arkhangelsk region.
The growth in visits to the northern territories is an important result of the development of domestic tourism and the discovery of the potential of the country’s unique regions. This was stated on Arctic Day by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko during a working visit to Arkhangelsk and the Solovetsky Islands in the Arkhangelsk Region.
The Deputy Prime Minister summed up the results of tourist visits to the regions of the Russian North and the Arctic in 2024.
“The number of tourist trips around Russia is steadily growing, including in the regions of the Russian North and the Arctic. In 2024 alone, they were visited by 3 million people – this is 7% more than in 2023. This applies to both Russians and guests from abroad. The steady growth of domestic tourism ensures that we fulfill the task set by Russian President Vladimir Putin – to almost double the tourist flow in the country by 2030 – to 140 million people. This is largely due to the implementation of the national project “Tourism and Hospitality” and the interest of the regions in creating places of attraction,” said Dmitry Chernyshenko.
Of the total number of tourists who visited the regions of Russia, according to the calculations of the Center for Strategic Research, more than 1.3 million tourists visited the Arctic territories (in 2023, according to estimates, about 1.2 million people visited the territory). Among the northern regions, tourists most often visited the Vologda Region and Karelia (about 700 thousand trips), and among the Arctic regions – the Murmansk Region (almost half a million trips).
Chukotka is the leader in popularity growth, where the number of tourists has more than doubled. There is also a significant increase in tourist trips in the Murmansk Region (18.6% year-on-year), Krasnoyarsk Krai (16.1%) and Yakutia (10.6%).
The number of foreign tourists has almost doubled, with more than 75,000 trips made. The largest share of foreign tourists is in the Murmansk Region (7.7%); in December, they made 20% of all trips to the region. At the same time, foreign tourists, unlike Russians, are equally active in traveling to the Arctic and the North in both winter and summer. From December 2023 to February 2024, they made 23,500 trips, and in the summer of 2024 – 25,500.
Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov emphasized that the growing interest in the Russian North and the Arctic is not accidental and that the further growth of tourist trips to these regions is directly related to the development of modern tourism infrastructure.
“The unique nature and culture of these territories attract more and more Russian and foreign tourists. The development of tourism infrastructure, including the construction of glampings and modular hotels on the coast of the Barents Sea and in Prionezhye, helps to further attract travelers. Over the past two years, more than 570 million rubles have been allocated to regions in the Arctic zone under the national project “Tourism and Hospitality” for the creation of modules. Large hotel complexes with a total number of rooms of about 1.1 thousand are also being built with support. The project of the ski resort “Ray-Iz” in the Polar Urals, which will become a powerful point of attraction for both Russian and foreign guests, was also supported under the preferential lending program,” the head of the Ministry of Economic Development noted.
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