By NNN-PTI
New Delhi : As part of celebrating 2008 as the ‘Year of Russia in India’, a delegation from Moscow is in the capital to woo the Indian tourists to the Eurasian country.
The delegation, including the head of the Russian Federal tourism agency and representatives of eight tourism companies, is here to promote the country’s picturesque places and various tourist destinations.
“We would like to develop Indo-Russian relationship on tourism front as the two countries have a great potential in this regard,” Irina Yartseva, Executive Director of World without Borders, a Russian travel association, told PTI.
“We are also thinking of setting up an information centre in New Delhi. This will assist the tourists in many ways like extending help regarding visas,” Yartseva said.
Whether the travel association has the backing of the Russian government, she said, “we work very closely. They support us as our main activity lies in the catering to the foreign tourists.”
To a question on whether tourism came late on the agenda of the two countries even though New Delhi and Moscow shared good relations from the cold war period itself, she said “there were no problems as such. The thing is that we are the beginners in this field.”