Among domestic tourists, Moscow still accounts for the lion's share (22.5%).
Last year, 9.4 million tourists visited St. Petersburg. This is reported by the DOS agency. According to experts, these figures are increasingly approaching the indicators of pre-Christian times, when more than ten million tourists came to the Northern Capital.
The share of foreigners is not very large - only 574 thousand people. Most often in Peter go from neighbouring Belarus - last year there were almost 73 thousand such tourists. As for Russia, the most frequent travellers to St. Petersburg are from Moscow - 22% of all tourists.