High spending Russians are visiting Dubai instead of Goa and there was a need to study why this has happened, state tourism minister Rohan Khaunte said in the Assembly. Goa still depends on its traditional markets of Russia and the UK to drive its international arrivals, and there must also be a look at emerging markets like USA, UAE, Germany, South Korea, Japan which are showing increase in outbound tourists, he added.
“High spending Russian tourists are found in Dubai. They should come to Goa. They have stopped coming to Goa. We need to study what happened. The state wants to know what exactly went wrong due to which they were diverted to a destination like Dubai,” Khaunte said.
