The Russian airports' VIP-passengers will now be standing in the general queue at passport control and pre-flight inspection, according to the newspaper Kommersant with reference to the decision of the Federal Security Service (FSB).
According to the publication, FSB insists at the closing…

Aeroflot - Russian Airlines can combine their airline subsidiaries under a single brand, as the head of Aeroflot Vitaly Saveliev said at the shareholders meeting on Monday.

"We have such a strategy: the premium segment remains for the Aeroflot. Meanwhile, we will increase the amount…

AEGEAN, a Star Alliance member, once more scooped the award for "Best Regional Airline in Europe" at the 2015 Skytrax World Airline Awards. The award took place on 16 June 2015 at the Paris International Airshow, and, as the organisers of the awards stated, AEGEAN maintained their dominance in Europe…

The EU hopes under certain conditions to return to a dialogue with the Russian Federation on the introduction of visa-free regime, the head of the EU Delegation in Russia Vygaudas Usackas said on Wednesday.

These negotiations (on the visa-free regime with the Russian Federation) stopped…

On June 22, 2015 the presentation of the joint project of the Amur Tiger Center and Transaero Airlines was held at Moscow Vnukovo airport. The project is aimed at drawing attention to the issues of environmental protection and conservation of rare and endangered species.

Within the…

Hanoi, Warsaw and Sharm el-Sheikh became the most accessible destinations for city break tours for Russian travelers, according to the study of TripAdvisor. The annual study TripIndex Cities compared three-day stay in the period from June to August in 40 key urban tourist centers of the world. It…

Russian Tourism Agency and Aerofuels group of companies signed an agreement to provide discounts on fuel for Russian air carriers flying within the country, the Federal Tourism Agency website said on Friday. Memorandum of cooperation was signed at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

The State Duma of Russia at the meeting on Friday passed in the third reading the law which fixes the minimum amount of medical insurance to be provided for traveling abroad at the level of 2 million rubles (about 37 thousand US dollars, or 32.8 thousand euro). "The document was developed in order…

Lufthansa Airlines suspends flights to Samara, Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow (Vnukovo airport) from Frankfurt, the air carrier said in a statement.

"Unfortunately, the current economic situation does not allow to keep flying at the proper level of profitability. However, Lufthansa will…

Prague and Sochi were the most popular destinations among Russian users of online hypermarket DaTravel.com for the June holidays devoted to Day of Russia (June 12), the press service of the company reported to Interfax.

Leaders on the number of tickets sold online on DaTravel.com…

Armenia, Georgia, Lithuania, and Latvia offer the cheapest tours for holidays in summer 2015, according to the the study of online travel market DaTravel.com.

In addition to these countries, in the list of budget destinations there are Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, and…

In April, 2015, 135 thousand Russians refused to go for holidays abroad. The experts predict that by the fall 2015 there will be ten times more. Total in 2014, the outgoing tourist flow from Russia amounted 13 million people. About 60% of them (7.8 million people) traveled in summer period, according…

Summer vacation in Russia will cost tourists from Russia an average 3.2 thousand rubles for accommodation per day, which is 30% less than abroad, the press department of tourist service Travel.ru reported, after analysis of the number of planned trips .

Top 10 countries among Russians…

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.

"The…

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…