What is the Forum
The Russian-Thai Investment Forum 2025 (RTIF 2025) is the largest annual platform for establishing long-term business ties between Russian and Thai companies, aimed at promoting mutually beneficial economic cooperation and implementing joint investment projects. The event takes place on November 26–28, 2025 in Phuket, Thailand.
It is organized by the Russian-Thai Business Council (RTBC) — a major Russian platform supporting business cooperation and investment between Russia and Thailand.
The Council comprises over 60 leading companies from Russia and Thailand, covering industries such as logistics, tourism, finance, IT, education, and more.
Goals & Opportunities
The forum offers a venue for businesses and investors from both countries to meet, collaborate, invest jointly, and develop projects across multiple sectors — including real estate, logistics, digital & tech, tourism, and other areas.
It aims to foster new forms of cooperation between government and private sectors, and build long-term investment relationships that support sustainable economic growth.
For Thailand — key opportunities include real estate development (especially in Phuket), logistics corridor development, technology transfer, and expanding trade & services exchange with Russia.
Program Highlights
The business program spans several tracks. Examples include:
Development & Real Estate — Discussions on attracting large-scale investment into Thai development projects, especially integrated development zones, with inspiration from successful Russian cases. Also exploring potential to build new world-class tourism + residential complexes in places like Phuket.
Digital Transformation & Tech — Focus on IT, AI, software and digital solutions. Russian and Thai experts explore cooperation to create innovative products or services adapted to both markets. Banking / Funds / FinTech / Investment Infrastructure — Sessions on financial instruments, investment funds, payment infrastructure — aimed at easing cross-border business and financing projects between the two countries.
Transport & Logistics — Panels on developing multimodal transportation corridors, improving logistics, enabling smoother trade flow between Russia and Thailand.
HoReCa, Retail & Tourism — Opportunities for hotel, restaurant, tourism, retail sectors to explore joint investments, brand cooperation, and service standard adaptation for international markets. Context & Strategic Importance
In December 2024, the Roscongress Foundation held its first promotion session in Bangkok to showcase Russia’s investment potential to Thai business community — with ~180 Thai firms participating, covering tech, medical, energy, agriculture, tourism, retail, etc.
With Thailand’s recent cooperation under the global economic grouping BRICS, RTIF 2025 comes at a strategic moment — offering new avenues to deepen economic and business ties between Thailand and Russia.
Why It Matters for Thai Businesses / Investors
RTIF 2025 offers Thai companies — especially those in real estate, tourism, logistics, digital, fintech — a rare chance to meet directly with Russian investors and business partners in an international forum.
It may open access to Russian capital, know-how, and collaboration experiences (e.g. successful property-development models) that could be adapted to Thai context (like Phuket).
For industries linked to technology, logistics, or cross-border trade, the forum could create new partnerships, expand market reach, and support diversification beyond traditional sectors.
