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Moscow launches online platform for tourists

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Moscow launches online platform for tourists


18.07.2020

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The Ruspass Internet platform, which facilitates travel around Moscow for city guests, will start working on July 20. With the help of the website, one can buy tickets to museums, call a taxi and draw up your a tourist route around the Russian capital, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reports.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin invited representatives of other Russian regions to become participants in the project. The head of the capital also announced that from the beginning of 2021 the platform will be included in the e-visa.

Sergei Sobyanin said that the first months the website will work in test mode, and the developers will be able to make adjustments, taking into account the wishes of users. The mayor stressed that the platform was designed for both Russian guests of the capital and foreign tourists.

According to Sobyanin, in the old days the tourism industry brought about 120 billion rubles to the Moscow budget every year. The mayor announced that the city authorities are doing everything that is possible in the current situation to restore tourist flow.

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