The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has instructed the Ministry of Finance to maintain a zero rate of VAT on domestic air transportation of passengers to/from the Crimea and Sevastopol, the site of the Russian government says.
In January-March 2015, passenger traffic on international charter flights from Moscow's airports decreased by half compared with the same period last year, from 1.2 million passengers to 652.4 thousand, the statement on the website of the Russian Aviation Ministry says .
At the beginning of May, the list of members of the association of outgoing Russian tour operators Tourpomosch has just 861 company, while last year at this same time, members of the association were more than two thousand travel companies, which is almost 2.5 times higher.
During May holidays, Moscow airports have increased the number of passengers compared to the same period of the last year by 4.1%, according to the Federal Air Transport Agency website.
According to the report, from May 1 till May 4, airports of Moscow served 845.3 thousand passengers…
Mobile Telesystems (MTS), one of the three biggest mobile operators in Russia, has started selling tickets for trains and planes in its own retail stores.
Online retailer Ozon, about 11% of which belongs to MTS, became the partner of MTS in this project.
The Russians may be able to have two international passports, the head of the Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky said to Interfax. "We are thinking about how to come up with an initiative to allow the citizens to have two international passports. This will create additional comfort",…
Almost all major Russian tour operators have reduced the volume of outgoing tourism. The reductions mainly affected regional programs, meanwhile the tourist flow from Moscow is almost on the same level, as the survey conducted by Interfax Tourism shows.
The most popular destinations for May holidays among Russian travelers will be Turkey and Egypt, as the survey among tour operators conducted of Interfax-Tourism stated. Some of the companies also talk about decrease in numbers of tourists compared to last year.
From May 1, Russian tourists will again pay for a visa to Egypt, but it will not have a noticeable effect on the tourist flow, as the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Tyurina reported.
"The Ministry of Tourism of Egypt informed in advance that Russians do nit…
Member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) should make a list of the UNESCO world cultural heritage "more diverse and fair," Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said at the conference of SCO culture ministers on Monday. The Russian minister pointed out that in his opinion,…
Inflation in Russia upon the results of 2015 might be 6.7% given the current rates of the weekly price growth, Russia’s Central Bank President Elvira Nabiullina told reporters on Thursday.
"We alongside others are looking at the annualised inflation that is the inflation expected during…
Russians who bought tour packages at the peak of currency exchange rate, start canceling tours and asking reconsideration of prices. Especially it concerns the early booking tours booked in December and March, at the peak of currency crisis. "This is quite a new trend that we encountered about a week…
Russian President Vladimir Putin was named the winner of US magazine Time 100 readers’ poll for this year’s most influential people.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was named the winner of US magazine Time 100 readers’ poll for this year’s most influential people. The South Korean girl-group…
The executive Director of the Association of Tour Operators (ATOR) of Russia Maya Lomidze reported about that to TASS.
Low-cost airline of Aeroflot, Pobeda Airline, organizes regular flights to Sochi, which reduces cost of tour packages to Sochi. Tour operators also actively work…
The popular online booking service Anywayanyday published a top 10 holiday destinations for Russians for May holidays. The leader is Sochi: the demand for flights to Sochi increased by 80% compared to last year. The second position is taken by Tel Aviv, the third by Mineralnye Vody and fourth by Simferopol.…
An average price for summer tour package to foreign destinations for Russians fell down by 15 – 20 per cent. Interfax informed about that as referred to data from tour operators.
Such trend is a result of price drop on some key destinations, cut of expenses for holidays, and dependence of…
On the last week, Rostourism (Federal Agency for Tourism) read out of Federal Registry at once 370 tour operators. The order was published on the web site of Ministry on 16-th of March, however travel industry was busy with tourism fairs in Moscow, MITT and Intourmarket.
Kommersant.ru has published the list of Russian most visited Internet resources, related to travel industry.
By request of Kommersant, Internet Analytics Company com.Score scaled the audience of top ten travel online services in Russia (they counted only web sites’ visitors above 15 y.o.).…
