MOSCOW, October 24. /TASS/. The tourist traffic from BRICS countries to Russia will be over two million trips next year owing to measures taken by Russia to develop tourism, Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov said at the meeting of BRICS tourism ministers in Cape Town.

"I am confident all these measures will facilitate the increase in the tourist traffic from BRICS countries to Russia. It will reach over two million travels as early as in the next year," Reshetnikov said, cited by the ministry’s press service.

Russia is and will always remain open for tourists from different countries, the minister said. It has restored the direct air service with forty countries after the coronavirus pandemic, including India and China. It is required now to make convenient connection flights among Russia, Brazil and South Africa, he added.