MOSCOW, 13 Mar RIA Novosti/Prime. Russian Federation in 2014 visited more than 25, 4 million foreign tourists, leads on the last working day of the week tourism data of Rosstat, which adopted a new system of counting tourists together with the Federal Agency for tourism.
before the press Secretary of the Federal tourism Agency Irina Segalove told Last news that Rosstat in 2014 has moved to a new system of calculation of inbound and outbound tourists by the system UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization world tourism organization) adopted in the international community, which differs significantly from the old domestic system.
"Introduction Rosstat new counting systems makes it impossible to compare incoming tourist flow in the Russian Federation for 2014 and 2013," he said Segalove in conversation with a journalist Last news .
Among the 25, 4 million foreigners who visited the Russian Federation in 2014 for tourism, first place is occupied by citizens of Ukraine (8, 4 million people), the second place is occupied by guests from Kazakhstan (3, 7 million), the third - from Poland (1, 8 million).
in the top ten most popular tourist traffic in Russia follow: Finland (1, 4 million), Uzbekistan (874 thousand), China (874 thousand), Azerbaijan (818 thousand), Moldova (618 thousand), Armenia (601 thousand) and Germany (548 thousand).
Based on data collected by the statistical office of legacy system, in 2013 the Russian Federation visited just about 2, 66 million foreign tourists, which is incomparable with the number 25, 4 million, which issued Rosstat according to the new coordinate system.
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