The growing interest among Russians in vacationing in Africa, Uganda has become even more active in promoting itself in the Russian tourism market. The DMCs are establishing contacts with Russian tour operators. Its national carrier, Uganda Airlines, is ready to consider launching direct flights.

At the MITT-2026 travel fair held in Moscow…

As of March 16, Association of tour operators of Russia announced that they evacuated from the UAE to Russia all the tourists the who had purchased package tours. 

In rare individual cases, tourists, usually with hotel only tours (those who booked only a hotel from a tour operator and bought tickets on their own) chose to stay in the UAE…

According to experts from the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RUTI), there have been no mass cancellations of tours to the Middle East for distant dates yet, although tourists are wondering whether they are obliged to do so following the Russian Ministry of Economic Development's travel advisory. RUTI experts emphasize that the conflict in the…