{"id":47543,"date":"2018-07-09T05:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T02:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/novosti\/rf-i-oae-vzaimno-otmeniat-vizy.html"},"modified":"2018-07-09T05:01:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T02:01:08","slug":"rf-i-oae-vzaimno-otmeniat-vizy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/novosti\/rf-i-oae-vzaimno-otmeniat-vizy","title":{"rendered":"Russia and UAE to mutually abolish visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>Russia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed an agreement between the two governments on Friday in Kazan on the mutual abolition of visa requirements, Interfax reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/d2b8a608bcaaba2dab3b66db879b0950.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cToday we witnessed the signing of an intergovernmental agreement <!--more-->&quot;On the abolition of the visa regime for citizens of Russia and the Emirates,&quot; said Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov after signing the document.<\/p>\n<p>\nAt a meeting of the Russian-UAE intergovernmental commission, D. Manturov announced that the signing of the agreement will create additional favorable conditions for the development of business mobility and increased tourism between the countries.<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to him, a memorandum of understanding and cooperation in the field of tourism was previously signed.<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;We&#039;re already seeing a significant increase in tourist flow from Russia to the UAE, which grew by more than $501,000 last year. Over 750,000 Russian tourists visited the UAE, whose contribution to your country&#039;s economy, according to expert estimates, exceeded $1,400,000. Given the upcoming lifting of the visa barrier, we also expect an increase in the reciprocal flow of tourists from the Emirates,&quot; said D. Manturov.<\/p>\n<p>\nSince February 2017, Russians have been able to obtain a free UAE visa on arrival for 30 days, with the possibility of extending it for another 30 days. <strong>According to data<\/strong> According to UAE authorities, the country was visited by approximately 995,000 Russian tourists in 2017, which is 1,081,000 more than the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trn-news.ru\/news\/77674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trn-news.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed an agreement between the two governments on Friday in Kazan on the mutual abolition of visa requirements, Interfax reports. &quot;Today we<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,26],"class_list":["post-47543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti","tag-oae","tag-rossiya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}