Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni will be travelling to Moscow on Tuesday in order to hold a series of meetings with high ranking officials of the Russian government. The obvious aim of said meetings is to enhance the touristic cooperation between our two countries.

Kefalogianni will be meeting with main representatives of the Russian tourism market on Wednesday morning. Following that, she will meet with Deputy Culture Minister Alla Manilova and will attend a working luncheon with head of the Federal Tourism Agency Aleksandr Radkov, as well as deputy head of the aforementioned Aagency Evgeniy Pisarevskiy.

Some of the issues to be discussed will be tourist visas and the development of specific programmes for thematic tourism.

Minister Kefalogianni will be answering questions posed by Russian media and will return to Athens on Wednesday.