Despite the losses suffered by tour operators, experts believe that the total tourist flow from Russia to Crimea may well reach last year's results.
Swissôtel Krasnye Holmy Moscow has hosted Travel IT WorkShop, an exhibition that saw great success and was organized by online travel magazine Travel Russian News and marketing communications agency PR2Point
Superjob.ru has organized a poll among Russian citizens over 18 years old. The respondents were to answer the following question: ‘If for your holiday you had to choose between Sochi and Crimea, which would you choose?’
Olga Stus, accommodation certification expert of the Novosibirsk Center for Certification and Production Quality Monitoring, told TRN magazine about the problems and development prospects of this segment.
Despite the fact that the first accommodation facilities situated in residential houses emerged in Russia as far back as 15 years ago, their legal status remains undefined: the first amendments to the Russian Civil Code that could legalize these businesses are only slated to be reviewed in the second half of 2014
St. Petersburg’s Governor Georgy Poltavchenko: “Neither western sanctions, nor political scheming will undermine foreigners’ interest in the city”.
Many health resort facilities of Crimean village Peschanoe are experiencing problems with booking
Situation is complicated with the Crimean destination. On the one hand, hotels and health resorts of the peninsula are ready for tourists, and Russian tourists themselves are ready and willing to go to Crimea. The only problem – the issue of carriage remains unresolved. Most Russians used to travel to Crimea by train, but now many fear using railroads due to the volatile situation in Ukraine. Russian authorities are hard at work trying to set up some safe and cheap way by which to transport tourists. The success of the tourist season in Crimea hinges on how fast this way will be found. TRN magazine spoke to a number of experts in order to get the full picture.
It has been over a year since Ruben Beltran received his credentials as Mexico’s ambassador to Russia. In this interview TRN magazine asked the ambassador about the progress that was the embassy has made during the past year in regard to consolidating tourism ties between the two countries, and about what there was still left to do…
That is what Head of the Development Department of the Moscow Tourism and Hotel Business Committee Alexandr Kolesnikov believes, and he spoke about that during the business meeting ‘New Framework: Travel Business and Universities’. According to him, right now the capital’s travel firms are in need of about 4 thousand specialists.