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The competition commission chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko has named 30 tourist routes that have won the Open your Russia competition, a nationwide project of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI). The routes will take tourists to 21 regions; ten of them pass through the areas where Tourism.RF is developing the tourist infrastructure.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko chaired a meeting of the Government Commission on Tourism Development.

The Board of Directors of the Tourism.RF Corporation has approved the corporation’s investment programme of 36.5 billion roubles. The programme will provide funding for the infrastructure worth 390 billion roubles in total.

Investors and government officials discussed Russia’s investment appeal and cooperation opportunities at The Russia Forum: Driving the Future that opened at Expo 2020 in Dubai.

Participants in the forum’s themed session included Russian Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Alexei Besprozvannykh, Head of Mubadala's Russia and CIS Investment Program Faris Al Mazrui, UAE Assistant Minister for Culture and Public Diplomacy
Omar Saif Ghobash, CEO of Tourism.RF Corporation Sergey Sukhanov, VEB.RF Chairman Igor Shuvalov, Ernst & Young CIS Managing Partner Alexander Ivlev, and heads of Russian regions.

General Director of the Tourism.RF Corporation Sergey Sukhanov and Head of the Republic of Khakassia Valentin Konovalov held a working meeting on the development of tourist infrastructure in the republic. The meeting focused on tourist areas and joint projects of the corporation and the region.