Demand for excursion tours to Europe is expected to drop 25.62% in April. Such is the forecast compiled by DSBW’s analysts based on the Excursion Tour Index EXDEX for March of 2014. According to the experts’ findings, the number of search queries for excursion tours to Europe in various online booking systems will amount to 20,172 in April, as opposed to 27,121 in this year’s March.
According to the tourism department of the Spanish embassy, the process of issuing visas to Russian tourists is going on at the usual rate. This March the number of the issued visas grew 12% as compared to the same period last year.
Its proposals are to be reviewed by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. In case they approve the proposals, the latter will take effect next year. Tourist flow is expected to grow 40-60% thanks to the streamlined visa regime for Schengen countries.
On the eve of the Moscow spring week of travel business professionals, a new General Director of Tunisia’s National Tourism Office was appointed – Khaled Trabelsi, who then visited MITT-2014. TRN magazine took an exclusive interview with the new appointee, where he shed some light on the plans for developing the destination on the Russian market, the inner workings of the country’s tourism and the nuances of promoting Tunisia.
Its members are Multitour, UTS Travel, Russian Express, Astravel, Travel System and National tour operator ALEAN
TRN magazine brings you an overview of the events of the upcoming exhibition
At the opening ceremony Egypt’s Minister of Tourism Hisham Zaazou thanked Russia for its loyalty and help during his country’s tougher times
A new rural tourism project will be launched in April – the portal ‘Росагротуризм.рф’ (‘Rosagrotourism’).
Egypt's ambassador to Russia Mohamed Elbadri attributes the slight drop in the Russian tourist flow to the safety measures that the local authorities have been implementing throughout the country's resorts
Approximately 100-110 thousand Russians are forecasted to visit Indonesia this year. According to official sources, last year this figure was 94,500 Russians. For the past three years the average growth rate of Russian arrivals has been at a steady 8-10%.
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