“Since June 22 the Mongolian airline Hunnu Air will start regular flights from the capital of the Republic of Buryatia Ulan-Ude to the capital of Mongolia Ulan-Bator”, - reports the press center of the Buryat airport "Baikal" (part of the Metropol group). The flight will be carried out twice a week by ATR and Fokker 50 aircraft.

“The text of a new agreement on visa-free group tourist exchange between Russia and China will be discussed in Beijing on April 28”, - said the Deputy Head of the Department for International Cooperation of Rosturizm Vladimir Fomin. He noted that the current agreement on visa-free group exchange between Russia and China was signed 17 years ago.

“China's “Sichuan Airlines” will begin regular direct flights from Harbin to Vladivostok according to the summer schedule”, - the Vladivostok airport press service reported. Currently, the flights from Harbin to Vladivostok are performed by Chinese airline “China Southern” twice a week.

“Airline "Aurora" will start regular flights on the route Vladivostok-Harbin-Vladivostok since March 2, 2017”, - said the press service of the company. The minimum tariff of one way flight, including all airline fees, starts from 3.8 thousand Rubles. Since March 2 till March 23, the flight will be performed twice a week - on Thursdays and Sundays.

«S7» airline has launched the sale of tickets for the route Moscow - Urumqi (China), which will be opened on April 30. "The direct flights to Urumqi will be performed since April 30, 2017 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Departure from Domodedovo airport at 20:15, arrival at 06:20 am of the local time on the next day", - reported the press service of the carrier.

International tour operator Tez Tour in 2016-2017 season will offer new routes to Hainan (China) island from the three major regional centers - Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk. The charter flight program with IFLY airline will starts from Novosibirsk to Sanya since December 23, from Yekaterinburg - December 27, from Krasnoyarsk - 29 December. Hainan is a worthy alternative not only for Egypt, but also for the traditional Asian routes such as Vietnam and Thailand. The flight time from Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk to Sanya is about 6 hours, from Ekaterinburg - 8 hours. Chinese tourists visas will be issued on arrival without further formalities. The tourists can also rest at the popular resorts such as Sanya, Sanya Bay and Yalunvan.

The airline company "Rossia" plans to perform regular flights to Beijing, according to the data of procurement website. The carrier issued a purchase of services for ground service of its aircraft at the Chinese airport - Tianjin. According the data, Tianjin is planned to be used as altrernative airport for the flights to Beijing.

The tourist flow has increased, but the "burning" threatens to direction since October. During the first seven months of 2016 the Chinese Hainan island was visited by 23% more tourists from Russia than in the same period of the last year. Such statistics was published by TASS September 8 referring to the data from the Xinhua News Agency.

The largest Russian ferry operator ST.PETER LINE operating in the Baltic region will open the Vladivostok-Shanghai cruise ferry line in 2017, Chief Executive Officer of the company Sergey Kotenev said on Friday. "The line route comprising calls to ports of Japan and the Republic of Korea has already been developed.

After four years of decline, there was a huge increase in the number of Russian tourists visiting China in January, new figures show. In total, 144,200 Russians visited in the first month of 2016－up 46.9 percent on the same period last year, according to a recent report released by the China Tourism Academy, a think tank under the China National Tourism Administration. Russia is the fifth-largest source market for China's tourism industry after the United States, Vietnam, Japan and South Korea, but over the past few years a weak ruble has dampened Russians' enthusiasm for travel abroad.

A third Russian-language channel on the basis of Russian Channel One may start broadcasting in China next year, Russia’s deputy minister of communications and mass media, Alexei Volin, said after a session of the Russian-Chinese commission for humanitarian cooperation on Friday. The commission assembled on Friday in Chinese Xi’an under the chairmanship of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets and her Chinese counterpart Liu Yangdong.

Tour operators say about the decline in demand for tours to China among Russians due to the increasing value of the dollar and the increasing costs of air transportation, the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Turina said to Interfax on Wednesday.

OrenAir Airlines (Orenburg airlines, one of companies of Aeroflot) started operations from Moscow to Kunming, Changsha and Nanjing, as the press department of the company reported.

Azur Air has announced the expansion of its route network in the 2019/2020 autumn-winter schedule, including from Russian regions. The carrier will also increase the intensity of flights to its traditional destinations.

27.10.2019 the flight of Azur Air company to Chinese resort Sanya took off from the international airport of Krasnodar. The first 329 passengers from Kuban capital turned to Hainan island. That is the new destination for the region. Boeing 767-300 aircraft for 336 passengers will work on the destination till 22.03.2020 according the tour operator’s plans.