"About 100,000 Chinese will travel to Russia," the Chinese tabloid Global Times reported on Tuesday quoting public relations manager of Ctrip, China's leading online travel agency.

According to the agency, women account for 57 percent of their clients who intend to go to Russia to watch the World Cup games.

 Another online travel platform, Lvmama, said that the number of bookings for trips to Russia from January to July has increased by 50 percent compared to the same period last year.

"Unlike previous World Cup tournaments held in southern hemisphere countries, Russia is close to China and so the price is relatively cheap," a Chinese football fan was quoted as saying by the tabloid.

Russia’s first-ever FIFA World Cup will take place from June 14 to July 15 in 11 cities across the country, Moscow, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saransk, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi and Yekaterinburg.