The forum took place on June 16-17 in a new hotel Radisson Rosa Khutor. The event was devoted to discussing the ‘Role of mega-events in the sustainable development of tourism’.
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.
Foreign yachtsmen, who were granted the right to enter Russia’s inland waters in 2012, are reluctant to use this opportunity.
Diana Lavrikova, Press Secretary of Russian Railway Tours, told TRN magazine that demand for railway tours was quite good, and train tickets almost always sold out.
New international flights have been added to the schedule of the Moscow airports in 2014.
Currently, international tourism takes up 29% of the global services export. Tourism places fifth among the global export industries, coming in after the energy, chemical, food and automotive industries. However, for many developing countries tourism is the most important industry.
Taken in absolute terms, it was 70.9m people. Passenger traffic on international air lines of the Moscow airports takes up 44% of this figure (18.1m)
The airlines that are going to participate in the ‘Crimean’ subsidizing program have already given to understand that the planned tariffs and subsidies were not enough to make the economics of flights profitable, or at least for them to break even. Oleg Panteleev, Head of Aviaport’s analytical service, told TRN about it while commenting on the topic.
In order to achieve this result, the region’s authorities deem it necessary to expand the destination’s tourism capabilities not only for summer, but for winter as well. Also, special attention will be paid to developing domestic tourism and attracting tourists from Russian regions.