ArmInfo. Armenia and Russia have expressed a shared interest in boosting tourism between the two countries. This became known following the meeting of Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Reshetnikov with the Minister of Economy of Armenia, Gevorg Papoyan, and the head of the RA Tourism Committee, Lusine Gevorgyan.
As reported by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, Maxim Reshetnikov noted that increasing the volume of mutual tourist flows could serve as an incentive for enhancing Russian- Armenian collaboration. In this regard, he recalled that during the recently opened tourism exhibition in Moscow - MITT 2025 -, Russia's Deputy Economy Minister Dmitry Vakhrukov and Chairperson of the Tourism Committee of Armenia, Lusine Gevorgyan, discussed in detail the plans for implementing the signed back in June 2023.
Reshetnikov said. Note that according to the RA Statistical Committee, 937,823 tourists from the Russian Federation visited Armenia in 2024, which is 17.5% lower than the previous year's figure.
