April 08 – 11th Moscow Dive Show 2021 the main annual event of the underwater industry took place. Moscow Dive Show 2021 is the largest exhibition of equipment, tourism and training for people interested in active lifestyle and water-based sports in Russia and Eastern Europe. The main part of the…

The last difficult year did not break the tradition of spring events for travel agencies. An annual Tez Tour Masquerade for Russian travel agencies took place in Moscow on March 18.

About 500 travel manager from Moscow, St. Petersburg and central part of Russia were invited to the concert…

The new type of b2b action announced today by Coral Travel in their daily newsletter is similar to KPI strategy and allows tour operator to set goals and travel agent to get bonuses by reaching them. We accumulated the most interesting ideas of this action.

1. Details of each promotion are…

On March 9, Coral Travel held the Spring-Summer 2021 workshop at the Hyatt Regency Petrovsky Park hotel in Moscow. It was the first large-scale event of the company since the beginning of the pandemic. Everybody was eager to communicate not on-line, but face to face. The event combined traditions…

The 14th International exhibition of boats and yachts Moscow Boat Show, one of the most significant events for the professionals of the yachting business and a platform for presentation of new branch developments and a meeting place for business and professional communication, was hold March 4 through…

The interview took place in the Chamber of industry and commerce in the city of Magdeburg (Germany). Andre Rummel managing director for tourism infrastructure and industry hosted our online meeting with Detlef Dahms the managing director of Ratswaage Hotel.

Detlef, tell us about…

Russian Travel Digest interviews Dmitry Lapatin - the founder and the general manager of Global Mice Group. His company runs three most important businesses in MICE industry – a MICE agency, travel marketing, and MICE Connection workshop.

Dmitry,…

How to be voted the best Airlines in the social media age? Where does creativity stop and  responsibility start? Russian Travel Digest analysed modern tendencies and can help to figure it out. We offer proven approaches to safety that help educate and inform passengers how to stay safe in the event…

Not only the passengers and pilots but the airplanes need the regular check-ups especially during the pandemia and post-pandemia times. All over the world the major airlines invent the extra steps to prevent any viruses by sanitizing planes, gates, self-checking screens, providing personal masks,…

How can airlines become a better version of themselves? How can we be the better versions of ourselves after pandemia? To take care about the others, to serve, to share and try to think two steps ahead, but also – to preserve the environment, social, cultural and psychological health of passengers…

When preparing for a hotel presentation, we often have to ask many questions to hoteliers. They always wonder: “Why do you need to know all of it?” For some reason, they don’t immediately believe that Russian tourists (and respectively travel agents) are very exacting ones - they want to know in advance…

In general, we can name 4 different types of presentations (not taking into consideration roadshows and workshops). 

Presentation in the office for employees of tour operator (offline)
Usually we come to the office of tour operator to meet their sales managers (Info…

For a couple of years I have been subscribed for newsletters of several hotel chains, mainly Greek, several Turkish, and a couple from Cyprus. The newsletters of two hotels on Maldives and one luxury resort from Seychelles also come regularly. Despite the fact that hotels are located in different…

For some reason, some hotels and tour operators are accustomed to set at naught on travel agencies. Unfortunately, I can’t find another word. How else to explain those absolutely useless newsletters that agencies receive a lot by emails? For information: on average, each Russian agency receives up…

Under the frame of forthcoming exhibitions, seminars and workshops we decided to talk about the rules for importing promotional catalogs to Russia, as well as other options for their delivery.
Option 1. Import of advertising catalogs to Russia from abroad.
From the point…

The question of hotels reviews is getting more and more essential for hoteliers. Ratings on resources like TripAdvisor are considered by hoteliers as important marketing tool. And while most of international travellers leave feedback mostly on TripAdvisor and HolidayCheck, Russian tourists prefer…

The new booking season for summer 2019 has started and the key question for tourists' is choosing the hotel for vacation in Turkey. A hotel loyalty program is a key strategy used by hotels to attract to its properties while selecting a hotel. It works on 100% for the direct clients. But what do we…