The International Tourism and Leisure Forum-Exhibition "OTDYKH Leisure 2024" will be held in Moscow from September 17 to 19. The event will take place at the central exhibition complex "Expocenter". This was reported by the Russian Union of Tourism Industry (RUST) on its website.
"The OTDYKH Leisure forum-exhibition is the main industry event in Russia before the start of the autumn-winter tourist season. For 29 years, OTDYKH Leisure has been a professional platform for solving business tasks in the field of tourism, hospitality and the meetings industry," noted the RUST.
Representatives of leading Russian and foreign tour operators and travel agencies, heads of regional tourism offices,experts and practitioners will gather at one site to assess the events and changes that have taken place in the tourism industry over the past year, analyze support measures and set new trends for the development of tourism in the country.
This year, more than 40 regions of Russia will join OTDYKH Leisure.
Last year, the forum-exhibition was attended by 9,500 people from 51 countries and 67 regions of Russia.
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