Forecasts say that this year the country will be visited by almost the same number of tourists as the year before, which is 20-26 million people. Russian tourist flow to the country in particular is predicted to experience the growth of up to 10%.
New international flights have been added to the schedule of the Moscow airports in 2014.
According to Deputy Russian Ministry of Culture Alla Manilova, who said it during the conference ‘Government Support for Small Hotels and Small Businesses in Tourism’
Local travel companies have prepared a variety of tours for travelers. Crimea’s Resorts and Tourism Ministry is still at work compiling a catalogue of tourism products of 2014, which will include tour operators’ offers and a list of tourist sites with a detailed description of hotels, health resorts and children’s facilities of the region.
According to the St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast Border Service of the Federal Security Service, there has been a significant drop in the number of crossings of the Russian-Finnish and Russian-Estonian borders during the first quarter of 2014. At the same time, the prolonged May holidays can once again cause ‘tie-ups’ at the border.
Russians have cut back on shopping trips to Finland. Last year they spent less money shopping, and what little they did spend, they spent very cautiously. These are the findings of a research conducted by a financial center, reports the TRN correspondent.
Food excursions are now being organized in the open-air museum ‘Ust-Sos’ in Beysky District of Khakassia
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.
Bookings for the summer season in Bulgaria are intermittent at the moment, with both ups and downs. Experts believe that dumping and carriage oversaturation are unavoidable this coming season
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…
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