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Palestine aims to triple number of Russian tourists

Palestinians aim to lure more Russian tourists by providing new tourism infrastructure, ecotourism and historic Orthodox churches.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Russian and Palestinian tourism officials and travel agencies discussed, earlier this month, measures to triple the number of tourists from Russia to Palestine.

“The conference aimed to create a network between the Russian and Palestinian tourism sectors, as well as enhancing their cooperation to increase the number of Russian tourists visiting Palestine each year, from about 380,000 to 1 million in 2019,” Jaris Qamseya, spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, told Al-Monitor.

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