For pre-holiday and holiday days, from December 27 to January 9, traffic on the border of Russia and Finland grew by 5,5%. In general, according to the Finnish border guard, about 412 thousand border crossings were registered for two weeks at the checkpoints Torfyanovka (Vaalimaa), Brusnichnoye (Nuyamaa),…

Six months after Russia suspended direct flights to and from Georgia, the Caucasus country has recorded around 100 000 less Russian tourists than in the same period of 2018, the Georgian National Tourism Administration (GNTA) has said.

However, the country managed to draw a record number…

U.S.-based international hotel and resort chain Wyndham plans to open 15 new hotels in Russia and neighboring countries within the next two years.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is the world’s largest hotel franchising company with over 9 200 hotels and 20 brands across more than 80 countries.

The…

Russia’s Ural Airlines launched its first-ever flight from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport (DME) to London Stansted Airport (STN) on Friday, Business Traveler reports.

The four times weekly service is being operated by a 160-seater Airbus A320 aircraft, configured with the economy and business…

Russian tourists made up a third of all tourist visits in Azerbaijan. This was reported by the State Agency for Tourism of the country. According to the Agency, in general, the number of tourists visiting Azerbaijan from January to November increased by 11,1% and reached 2,9 million people. So, the…

According to the results of three quarters of 2019, the number of Russian citizens who visited Serbia with tourist purposes increased by 36,7%. The region is becoming increasingly popular. From the number of federal tour operators new players are entering in the destination.

According to…

10 apartments, 2 non-residential premises and a house with three plots of land, sold by the ex-director of the business failure DSBW tour operator Karen Goncharov shortly before the start of his bankruptcy proceedings, led to another lawsuit. On July 3, 2018, the tour operator DSBW announced the impossibility…

Ural Airlines will start operating flights from Rostov-on-Don to Prague from February 21, 2020, as the press service of Platov (Rostov) airport said.

The flights will be operated on Fridays by Airbus A320. Ticket sales for this rout are already opened. Ural Airlines plans to operate flights…

The protests in Paris, which began last week, have not yet decreased the demand for this destination among Russian tourists. So, according to Victoria Kuznetsova, manager of France Bsi Group, protest actions do not affect the work of the company. “Requests for France continue to come, there are no…

Foreign Ministers of Russia and Andorra Sergey Lavrov and Maria Ubah have signed an Agreement on the conditions of refusing from visa formalities for mutual trips of citizens.

The agreement will enter into force 90 days after signing.

The start of consultations on the preparation…

Utair Airlines flies according to the autumn-winter schedule, which will be valid until March 28, 2020. In the "winter" framework Utair launches a route to Germany.

From December 28, 2019 to January 12, 2020, the carrier will regularly operate flights from Moscow to Munich and back. From…

On December 28 will be the first flight of Ural Airlines from Moscow to Budapest, according to a press release from the company. The carrier will fly to the capital of Hungary from Zhukovsky Airport three times a week.

The tour operator Vedi Group highly evaluates the new route. So, according…

According to expert forecasts, by the end of 2019, the Russian tourist flow to France will grow by at least 10% in annual terms. Tour operators note greater dynamics of sales in one of the most popular European destinations among Russians.

As Inessa Korotkova, the director of the representative…

A decision on lifting an ongoing Russian ban on flights to and from Georgia should not be expected by the end of the year, Russian upper house lawmaker Grigory Karasin said Thursday after a meeting with Georgian special representative Zurab Abashidze in Prague, according to RIA Novosti. 
Representatives…

60 new routes will appear for travelers in the low season as a part of the project. St. Petersburg and the Finnish Saimaa region together create the “Tourism Corridor” project. The project includes at least 60 routes connecting the Northern capital and the Finnish cities of Lappeenranta, Imatra, Savonlinna…

2,68 million tourists visited Azerbaijan in January-October, which is almost 11% more than for the same period last year, the country's State Tourism Agency (GAT) told. The largest tourist flow was from Russia and Georgia. 
Over 10 months, 798 thousand Russians visited Azerbaijan: an increase…

Judging by the bookings, this winter at the ski resorts of Bulgaria up to 60% of holidaymakers will be tourists from neighboring countries. Growth is also expected in some major source markets. This was stated by the Minister of Tourism of the country Nikolina Angelkova at a meeting with the tourist…

Russian airlines are looking for compensation from the government after the Kremlin’s ban on direct flights to Georgia cost them a combined 3.2 billion rubles ($50 million). 
President Vladimir Putin ordered a temporary ban of passenger flights from Russia to Georgia this summer following an…

Tour operators record an increase in demand for tours to Istanbul this winter season. According to Istanbul authorities, for the first 10 months of 2019 more than 11 million foreign tourists visited the city. Unlike the resort of Antalya, Russian tourists in Istanbul are not leaders, but are among…

As the participants of the tourist market told, New Year's celebration in the Czech capital is losing its actuality among Russian tourists. “There is no such high demand as before, when we sent 600 people for the New Year's dates. So, we don’t offer the New Year itself,” says Elena Popova, the general…