Russia currently uses eleven standard time zones, which are shown on the picture below. Russia previously utilized nine standard time zones, but effective October 26, 2014 Russia ended year round daylight saving time and also add two new time zones. Russia's Federation Council voted to reverse the…

On August 11, 2015 in Bejing at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture, the first stage of the road show Visit Russia takes place, organized by the Federal Agency for Tourism.…

Two of the Russian capitals are the most visited tourist destinations for Chinese tourists. For six months of this year, Moscow and St. Petersburg were visited by 103,000 Chinese…

AccorHotels Group opened its tenth hotel in Moscow - "ibis Moscow Dynamo", the press department of the company reported to Interfax.

The new ibis Moscow Dynamo is 20 minutes by taxi from Sheremetyevo Airport and close to Belorussky train station. The hotel is ideally located for attractions…

The governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Valery Shantsev said that fans who will attend the World Cup 2018 in Nizhny Novgorod, will be placed in the hotel located on the ships. "We have sufficient capacity in the stadium, and we are constructing a subway nearby. We dreamed about 1/4 finals. In the…

Visit Russia (National Marketing Center for Tourism) and Intourist Thomas Cook are engaged in promotion of national tourist product, according to the website of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

The parties signed an agreement on cooperation in the promotion of the…

Because of repair works at the Moscow railway, the timetable of Aeroexpress to/from Domodedovo airport is changed, the press department of Aeroexpress informed. The changes will affect the following dates in July: the nights from 17 to 18; from 18 to 19; from 24 to 25; and from 25 to 26, the report…

The Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the Moscow region has identified a violation of competition law committed by the Sheremetyevo airport and the Aeroflot airline, the press department of FAS stated.
"On the results of an unscheduled inspection on May 7, 2015, the Moscow…

The Russian authorities might decide to create an additional incentive for travel agents to encourage them selling more tours to Russian resorts. As TourDom learned from some sources, it is planned to award with cars those travel agents who would send the maximum number of tourists to Krasnodar…

Tour Operators Association in Outbound Tourism Tourpomosch is the organization who has to take care about all tourists who get in a difficult situation, because of financial insolvency of a tour operator. The Association has to protect Russian tourists not only because of financial security mechanism…