In the first half of 2015, number of international trips of Russians decreased by 24% compared with the same period of the last year and amounted to 16.4 million. Meanwhile, the number of international trips with tourism purposes decreased by almost 34%, according to data of the Federal State Statistics…
The Government of the Russian Federation held the meeting of the Intergovernmental commission chaired by Igor Shuvalov, First Deputy Prime Minister, on the issues of air transport industry. In the interests of the development of the commercial aviation and creating one of the largest in the world group…
Mikhail Piotrovsky, the Hermitage museum director-general believes that other Russian museums are likely to face similar problems. Police will stop guarding the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in November because of the forthcoming lay-offs at the Russian Interior Ministry, Mikhail Piotrovsky,…
The flows of tourists have been mainly reduced due to the depreciation of the Russian ruble, some people went to domestic beach destinations.
Fewer Russians took holidays abroad this year, a decline of 20% compared with 2014, an advisor for tourism to the Russian culture minister, Nikolay Novichkov,…
More than 76% of all booked in 2015 tour packages include meals and services on "all inclusive" system, accordsing to the information of the Russian tour operator TUI.
"Today, all Inclusive is the most popular meal plan on the mass tourism destinations. This system allows clients to save as paying…
Quite a large number of outgoing tour operators left the market within a year, some companies shifted to domestic tourism, the director of the Northwest regional branch of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Ekaterina Shadskaya reported.
"Despite the fact that this year much less tourists book international…
Continued fall of the ruble has led not only to a decrease in sales of international trips, but also to the abandonment of partially paid tours, according to the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Turina. "Many customers who have made a pre-payment for the tour and now have…
The new general director of tour operator MULTITUR is Dmitry Sharov, the press service of the company reported D.Sharov works in Multitur since 2006. He worked operator, head of sales department, the executive director of the company. Previously CEO of MULTITUR was Alexey Vysokanov, who will remain head…
In July 2015, the average price for a ticket in one direction to the non-CIS countries amounted to 12.5 thousand rubles, which is almost 30% more than in July in the last year, when it amounted to 9.65 thousand rubles.
The cheapest routes from Moscow in the last month were to Prague, Berlin, Istanbul…
Major Russian tourism group OTI is diversifying and building up domestic holidays to counter the slump in foreign travel which could result in a market consolidation, according to a senior executive.
Russian outbound travel has dropped dramatically this year on account of the devaluation of the rouble…
The interest of foreign tourists to Russia is growing against the backdrop of the ruble exchange rate, but the growth is due to the Asian rather than European markets, the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Tyurina said referring to incoming tour operators.
The Moscow office…
Tour operators say about reduced demand for tours due to devaluation of the ruble and the uncertainty of future courses, the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Tyurina reported to Interfax.
"Tour operators have noted that the reason is not only reducing…
The share of Russian purchases at Duty Free shops at Barcelona airport has decreased from 19% to 8% in the first half of 2015, according to the portal TRBusiness.com with reference to the report of the management of World Duty Free Group.
According to the report, overall sales in the Duty…
Russian tour operators do not have debts to the air carriers for the organization of charter flights, airline officials said at a meeting held on Tuesday in Federal Tourism Agency.
The meeting was attended by the heads the Federal Tourism Agency, representatives of the association Tourpomosch,…
The most negative forecasts about reduction in tourists' flow abroad did not come true: the demand for foreign destinations fell by 25-30%, and this is less than might be expected due to current economic situation, the executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) Maya Lomidze…
Referring to the representatives of travel industry, Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) does not expect big demand for a second international passport for Russians. Although, the service will be in demand by certain categories of tourists. "The second passport is necessary for businessmen,…
Insurance company Lloyd-City, which license was suspended by the Central Bank of Russia in June, may be declared bankrupt, the head of the Legislative Department of the Federal Tourism Agency Izo Arakhamia said to Interfax.
"We have already informed all insured by Lloyd-City tour operators…
In June 2015:
- Transaero carried 1,511,883 passengers, a 5.5% increase over June 2014.
- Passenger load factor increased by 3% and reached 87.3%.
- Passenger traffic on domestic routes grew by 65.8%.
Aeroflot airline has decided to liquidate its "daughter" company, the low-cost air company Dobrolet, according to the information of SPARK-Interfax database.
Dobrolet low-cost airline started operations in June 2014 with a flight to Simferopol. On July 30, 2014, the EU has imposed restrictive…
In the nearest future, Russians will fly abroad with a passport with an electronic chip, according to the head of the Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky.
"We are ready to start almost an identity card of the citizen of the Russian Federation with the electronic data. It takes…
