Russia is celebrating yet another great success: the fact that Russians have overcome their dependence on holidays abroad!
Goida!*
News from Mordor:
“"The domestic tourist flow is growing, in 2023 it exceeded the pre-pandemic and reached 78 million tourist trips, which is 21% more than last year.
Of course, we need to increase the tourist infrastructure as soon as possible in order to meet the growing demand of our citizens who LOVE to vacation inside our country.
We broke the tourist COLONIAL DEPENDENCE, and vacationing in our country has become FASHIONABLE and PRESTIGIOUS," said the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Chernyshenko.
He also noted that Russia has developed an index of provision of regions with tourist infrastructure.
In his speech, Mr. Chernyshenko mentioned the Siberian ski resort "Sheregesh". The Deputy Prime Minister is confident that the resort will attract a lot of investments in the future.
Dmitry Chernyshenko called very ambitious the intention of the Governor of the Kemerovo region Sergey Tsivilev to bring the region to the top five world ski resorts by 2030.
Earlier, President Vladimir Putin said that special attention should be paid to the development of active domestic tourism. In a message to the Federal Assembly, the head of state set the task to double the contribution of the tourism industry to Russia's GDP by 2030, to 5%, and the tourist flow around the country should grow to 140 million people per year.”
So in other words Putin wants every Russian to go on vacation somewhere inside of Russia once a year.
*In case you’re not familiar with what Goida means it’s an expression used by Russian actor/priest Ivan Okhlobystin that he shouted from the stage when Russia was celebrating the illegal annexation of 4 Ukrainian regions.