Editing Economy of Russia (section)

====Tourism====
{{Main|Tourism in Russia}}
[[File:Grand Cascade in Peterhof 01.jpg|thumb|[[Peterhof Palace]] in Saint Petersburg, a [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]]]]
According to a [[World Tourism Organization|UNWTO]] report, Russia is the sixteenth-most visited country in the world, and the tenth-most visited country in Europe, as of 2018, with 24.6 million visits.<ref name="unwto">{{Cite journal|url=https://www.e-unwto.org/doi/epdf/10.18111/wtobarometereng.2020.18.1.6|title=UNWTO World Tourism Barometer|journal=UNWTO World Tourism Barometer English Version|publisher=[[World Tourism Organization]] (UNWTO)|year=2020|volume=18|pages=18|language=en|doi=10.18111/wtobarometereng|issn=1728-9246|issue=6|url-access=subscription|access-date=13 February 2021|archive-date=29 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029182723/https://www.e-unwto.org/doi/epdf/10.18111/wtobarometereng.2020.18.1.6|url-status=live}}</ref> Russia is ranked 39th in the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2019.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Uppink Calderwood|first1=Lauren|last2=Soshkin|first2=Maksim|editor-last=Fisher|editor-first=Mike|title=The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2019|url=http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TTCR_2019.pdf|access-date=11 November 2020|publisher=[[World Economic Forum]]|location=Geneva|page=xiii|isbn=978-2-940631-01-8|archive-date=4 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904142913/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TTCR_2019.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> According to [[Federal Agency for Tourism (Russia)|Federal Agency for Tourism]], the number of inbound trips of foreign citizens to Russia amounted to 24.4 million in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Выборочная статистическая информация, рассчитанная в соответствии с Официальной статистической методологией оценки числа въездных и выездных туристских поездок – Ростуризм|trans-title=Selected statistical information calculated in accordance with the Official Statistical Methodology for Estimating the Number of Inbound and Outbound Tourist Trips – Rostourism|url=https://tourism.gov.ru/contents/statistika/statisticheskie-pokazateli-vzaimnykh-poezdok-grazhdan-rossiyskoy-federatsii-i-grazhdan-inostrannykh-gosudarstv/vyborochnaya-statisticheskaya-informatsiya-rasschitannaya-v-sootvetstvii-s-ofitsialnoy-statisticheskoy-metodologiey-otsenki-chisla-vezdnykh-i-vyezdnykh-turistskikh-poezdok/|access-date=11 November 2020|website=tourism.gov.ru|publisher=[[Federal Agency for Tourism (Russia)]]|language=ru|archive-date=22 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122202242/https://tourism.gov.ru/contents/statistika/statisticheskie-pokazateli-vzaimnykh-poezdok-grazhdan-rossiyskoy-federatsii-i-grazhdan-inostrannykh-gosudarstv/vyborochnaya-statisticheskaya-informatsiya-rasschitannaya-v-sootvetstvii-s-ofitsialnoy-statisticheskoy-metodologiey-otsenki-chisla-vezdnykh-i-vyezdnykh-turistskikh-poezdok/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Russia's international tourism receipts in 2018 amounted to $11.6 billion.<ref name="unwto" /> In 2020, tourism accounted for about 4% of country's GDP.<ref>{{Cite web|date=26 September 2020|title=Вице-премьер считает, что вклад туризма в ВВП России может вырасти в три раза за 10 лет|trans-title=Deputy Prime Minister believes that the contribution of tourism to Russia's GDP could triple in 10 years|url=https://tass.ru/ekonomika/9558261|access-date=11 November 2020|website=ТАСС|publisher=[[TASS]]|language=ru|archive-date=3 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003015106/https://tass.ru/ekonomika/9558261|url-status=live}}</ref> Major tourist routes in Russia include a journey around the [[Golden Ring (Russia)|Golden Ring]] [[theme route]] of ancient cities, cruises on the big rivers like the [[Volga]], and journeys on the famous [[Trans-Siberian Railway]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-unwto.org/content/r13521/fulltext.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112082549/http://www.e-unwto.org/content/r13521/fulltext.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 January 2015|title=Tourism Highlights 2014|publisher=UNWTO (World Tourism Organization)|date=2014|access-date=20 January 2015}}</ref> Russia's most visited and popular landmarks include [[Red Square]], the [[Peterhof Palace]], the [[Kazan Kremlin]], the [[Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius]] and [[Lake Baikal]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vlasov|first=Artem|date=17 December 2018|title=Названы самые популярные достопримечательности России|trans-title=The most popular sights of Russia are named|url=https://iz.ru/824446/2018-12-17/nazvany-samye-populiarnye-dostoprimechatelnosti-rossii|access-date=15 December 2020|website=[[Izvestia]]|language=ru|archive-date=17 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217185705/https://iz.ru/824446/2018-12-17/nazvany-samye-populiarnye-dostoprimechatelnosti-rossii|url-status=live}}</ref>