MOSCOW. May 26. INTERFAX-TOURISM - Demand for expensive overseas trips was hardly affected by the economic crisis, in some areas the sales of tour operators are even better than the year before, he press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Tyurina reported.
Some foreign airlines are about to leave the Russian market under the current conditions of reduction in demand for international transportation, and some airlines reduce the flight programs, the deputy head of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation Valery Okulov said on transportation…
Audit commission of Tourpomosch (association of tour operators for outbound tourism) failed to establish the exact number of tourists, evacuated from abroad in 2014 after the bankrupts of tour operators , the chairman of the association Natalya Kitova said at a general meeting of the association committee.
According to the statement of ATOR, the main reasons are difficult economic situation, reducing of demand for tours and difficulties in obtaining financial guarantee.
The number of tour operators working in the field of outgoing tourism, compared to the 2014 year has been decrease…
Airport of Lipetsk, on Friday opened international flights, the head of administration of the Lipetsk region, Oleg Korolev, said. The first flight was operated to Italy on the route Lipetsk - Milan - Lipetsk.
Starting from December 2015, Thailand plans to issue multiple entry tourist visas for a period of six months or a year, the publication of Asia One said referring to the statement of the new Minister of Tourism of the country.
Today, Russian citizens do not need visas to Thailand, if…
Sales of flight tickets to international destinations in Russia have dramatically dropped last winter due to the depreciation of the ruble against the dollar and the euro. But after strengthening of the Russian national currency, the sales are going back to the level of 2014, according to the study…
On Thursday, 21.05.2015, on the general meeting of the members, Alexander Osaulenko was elected the new Executive Director of Tourpomosch, the association of tour operators in outgoing tourism. Previously he worked on the position of deputy director of Tourpomosch.
Vladivostok Airport in the summer can start receiving the largest passenger aircraft in the world A380, which is planned to be operated on the route Moscow - Vladivostok by Transaero airline, as the press department of the Governor Vladimir Miklushevsky reported.
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,…
