The land of the Northern Lights, and the rest of Russia, is off-limits to Chinese visitors under the Kremlin’s super-strict coronavirus precautions.
MOSCOW — As Chinese tourists increasingly flocked to the Russian Arctic in winter, locals began promoting an old Chinese myth about the Northern Lights: Conceiving a child beneath them will bring the progeny good fortune.
Now, fewer Aurora Borealis babies and a tourism slump for Russia’s Far North are likely to be among the many global ripple effects of the coronavirus outbreak.for nearly all Chinese — tourists, workers, students and private travelers — started Thursday. But the measure has been questioned by some critics as too extreme, especially considering just two casesChinese visitors account for nearly 30 percent of Russia’s total tourism, according to the World Without Borders travel association.
“The only thing that can be ascertained is that all necessary measures are being taken to prevent the coronavirus from getting into our country and spreading around,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.“The government is answering to a popular demand to deal with the threat and wants to show that it’s moving ahead of the curve,” said Alexander Gabuev, chair of the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center.
Although Moscow and St. Petersburg remain the top destinations in Russia for Chinese tourists, the Arctic port of Murmansk has risen in popularity.
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