“Tourism can recover earlier than by the end of 2021, namely by the spring of 2021,” Tarin quoted the head of the Federal Tourism Agency Zarina Doguzova.

She noted that the department also offers hoteliers and tour operators together with the regions to work out an extension of the holiday season until the end of October 2020.

Earlier it became known that Russian tour operators reported the cancellation of some of the July tours abroad, as they “do not have high hopes” for the resumption of international tourism in the coming month.