“Demand for tours to Europe from the cities of Siberia began to grow after a serious recession”, - reported the publication of the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RCT) Rata News, citing data from representatives of the tourist industry. “This summer, for the first time after a serious recession, the regional tourist industry marks a noticeable revival of demand for Europe.

“The Russian cruise company Mosturflot will launch the first cross-border cruises in the Caspian Sea including Baku in 2019”, - informs the publication of "Vestnik ATOR". "The first trans-Caspian cruises on the newest Russian ship will start in 2019. The ports of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and, possibly, Turkmenistan will be the points of visit.

“Transportation of passengers by long-distance trains to foreign countries increased by 19.6% for the period from January to May 2017 in comparison with the same period of the last year”, - said in the press service of Russian railways (RZD).

“Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group plans to open about nine new hotels in Russia until 2022”, - said David Jenkins the Vice-President for Business Development of the Group in Russia. According to him, at present time they have signed contracts for the management of three hotels under the Radisson Blu brand, which will be opened in 2017-2021.

VIM-AVIA announced the reduction of 12.8% of charter flights, from June 2 to June 15 inclusive. The solution is associated with the need to minimize delays caused by the late arrival of three aircrafts from scheduled flights. According to the company, all obligations to passengers of charter flights, which have already been transported to Russian and foreign resorts, will be fulfilled. The airline apologizes to passengers for the inconvenience caused.

The Arbitration Court of the Moscow District confirmed the recovery of $ 5.8 million from LLC Natalie Tours in favour of Transaero. Thus, the cassation appeal was dismissed. Recall, that in November 2016 the Moscow Arbitration had met a claim of Transaero to recover this amount from LLC Natalie Tours as a debt according to the agency agreement.

“The return of Turkey did not reduce the flow to the other foreign resorts, but led to a decrease in demand for the Black Sea resorts”, - said the Chief Executive of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) Maya Lomidze.

The carrier tries to recover a forfeit from the tour operator On October 26 the Moscow Arbitration Court will consider the application of the airline "Transaero" to recover $ 5.9 million from the tourist company TEZ Tour Ltd. This information appeared in the materials of the court on Friday, March 17.

For 2016 incomes of Russians, according to Rosstat, decreased by 5.9% against 3.2% a year earlier. Thus, compared with 2015, the reduction rate accelerated more than 84%, or almost twice.

The number of participants of the Novosibirsk market of tourist services in 2016 decreased by 30-60% depending on the segment. As explained the Chairman of the Novosibirsk Association of tourism organizations Dmitry Mikitchenko, in the region there were 700 travel agencies in 2014, in 2015 - about 600 and now - about 420.

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared December 26 as the day of national mourning for those who died in the Tu-154 plane crash. "Tomorrow the day of national mourning will be declared in Russia," Putin told reporters. The Tu-154 plane from Russia’s Ministry of Defense vanished from radar screens at 05.40 a.m. Moscow time (02.40 a.m. GMT) shortly after taking off from the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

Crimean authorities have offered Turkey to resume direct flights from the peninsula and ferries connection on the line Yevpatoriya - Zonguldak. "It would be essential and very important for our communication with Turkish Republic to restore direct air flights, which existed at previous time as the flight Simferopol - Istanbul.

The ceremony of awarding the winners of the All-Russian professional skill competition "The best professionals in the tourism industry" was held in Moscow on October 28.

“Sales of the November holidays tours are more active against the previous year”, - said the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Turina to the portal "Interfax-Tourism", referring to data of tour operators.

This winter the amount of the charter flights from Rostov-on-Don and other cities of the region is reduced against the last season. For example, on the most popular direction Thailand (under the conditions of closed Egypt) - the number of flights is expected half, than in winter 2015.

In Yekaterinburg the volume of transportation on the main winter direction (under conditions of absence of Egypt) - Thailand - is at least equivalent to last year, but the balance of players has changed. “ANEX Tour” scheduled two 11-13 chains to Bangkok and the same to Phuket by Boeing 767-300 of “Azur Air” airline Co

“Charter flights program between Kamchatka and Japan will connect Tokyo and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the summer of 2017”, - said the Agency of Tourism and External Relations of Kamchatka Region on Tuesday. "The JATM (Japan Air Travel Marketing Co Ltd) company will be the organizer and consolidator of flights tours from Japanese side.

Italian cruise operator Moby Lines entered into the capital of the Russian ferry operator St. Peter Line. The companies say about the actual merger of the two businesses. According to the St. Peter Line company's General Director Sergei Kotenev, the ferries remain in his company. Moby Lines takes the ships under administration control.

The “Tripsta” experts interviewed Russian travelers and found out, visa of which country is easier to get. Thus, 64% of tourists said that they collect documents for visa independently without any outside support or tour operators, 18% seek help from the travel agency. At the same time most travelers believe that collection of documents for Spain visa is easier.

"Sochi" international airport plans to serve more than 5 million passengers in 2016 - reported the press-service of "Basel Aero" company, which manages by all airports in Krasnodar Region. As it was informed, following the results of 2015 the passenger’s traffic reached 4.088 million people.

The investigation of the criminal case over the crash of a Boeing passenger plane of the FlyDubai air carrier at Rostov-on-Don airport is nearing completion, spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin said on Monday. "The Boeing crash criminal case is practically at the final stage," the official said on Vesti FM radio. A FlyDubai’s Boeing 737-800 crashed at Rostov-on-Don’s airport in the small hours on March 19 during a second attempt to land in complicated weather conditions of strong side wind and rain.

In February 2016, Vnukovo airport decreased its passenger traffic by 23%, to 690 thousand people, according to the information of the airport. On domestic routes index increased by 6.4% to 576.1 thousand people, on international it dropped by 67% to 114.3 thousand.

«Most of passengers of flight FZ981 crashed on Saturday in Rostov-on-Don, were tourists, according to the information of Russian Union of Travel Industry. Natalie Tours had the biggest amount of seats on this flight. "The aircraft is designed for 180 seats, it was downloaded for less than a third,..» Irina Tyurina, the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry said.

A total of 61 people, including the crew, who were on board a Boeing 737-800 passenger jet bound from Dubai, were killed in a crash in southern Russia’s Rostov-on-Don airport. "According to specified information, there were 55 passengers and six crew members on board," a source said. "According to preliminary data, the jet bound from Dubai crashed during runway approach," it said.

"Passenger traffic grew by 0.2% and amounted to 5.121 million passengers, mail and freight transportation increased by 0.1% - up to 73.445 tons. In comparison, in February of the last year 5.112 million passengers and 73.364 tons of cargo and mail were handled," the message of the Federal Agency of Air Transportation of Russia stated. The last time the traffic growth was recorded in the Federal Agency of Air Transportation last September (by 3% to 9.52 million passengers). Information from Federal Agency of Air Transportation