Russian Government proposes visa free tourism to visit its Arctic region

Global tourism has gone from being something that was held for a reserved influential class to a movement that is within of the scope of several millions global inhabitants, fundamentally from the Western nations, Russia, China and Japan. These days, unfamiliar does not mean the same as it used to earlier all thanks to the boost in visa free travel and e-visa facilities for tourists around the world.

The Russian Ministry of Culture isn’t one to be left behind as the Ministry has called for a lessening of visa requirements for foreign tourists going to the northern Russian urban areas of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk, something that could add to creating tourism in Russia’s Arctic Region. More than 800 travelers went to the two archipelagos between Russia's terrain and the North Pole decently. The National Park in the Russian Arctic is situated in the northern part of the archipelago Novaya Zemlya, and it additionally has the ‘region of the territory of the federal wildlife reserve Franz-Josef Land under its jurisdiction’ as the newspaper observes. The wildlife reserve has a total area of around 1.5 million hectares (or 15 thousand square km), that is 15 times more than the territory of Moscow, equivalents the region of the Kaliningrad district or half of the region of Belgium.

The service was echod by Sergey Korneyev, Director of Tourism for the Russian Ministry for Tourism, who indicated European and Asian sightseers' always expand show their interest for going to the Arctic's places along the Norwegian coast. Russian daily paper Izvestia reports that the Russian Ministry of Culture is now effectively elevating visits to north-western Russia. Visiting supervisors working in the local business sector have, then, proposed offers identified with travel offers as a component of the Silver Necklace of Russia task, which incorporates 11 areas in the nation's Northern region.

At present, tourists touching base on cruise ships are permitted visa-free passage for 72 hours at nine seaports. For more news and updates from Russia as well as global tourism, subscribe to our newsletter on y-axis.com.

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Original Source:Sputniknews