During the First Russian-Chinese Culture and Tourism Forum that took place earlier in St. Petersburg, culture ministers of Russia and China, Vladimir Medinsky and Cai Wu, signed an agreement on new cooperation programs for 2014-2016, reports the TRN correspondent.
As part of the ‘Vacant Seat’ joint affair between the company HeadHunter and Travel Russian News (TRN), a TOP-20 list of the most high-paying jobs in tourism was created. The list features the vacancies throughout Russia that are currently relevant and available on the HeadHunter site.
According Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic, immediate attention is being paid to fostering tourism in the country. Local authorities have launched two major investment projects – ‘Veduchi’ and ‘Kezenoy-am’. In addition to that, the Chechen tourism committee is to hold a publicity event for travel agencies in the middle of November.
According to the WTTC estimate, Russian business travel market is bound to grow from $6.5bn to $18.4bn by 2020, with the year-over-year growth of 6%. Global market is to spike from $820bn in 2010 to $1600bn in 2020 with the growth rate of 4.3% a year. However, on an ICCA (International Congress and Convention Association) Central European chapter meeting that took place in St. Petersburg experts deemed many Russian cities to have large potential in the MICE sector. Yet due to a number of reasons this large potential is largely wasted, and TRN magazine is here to discover why…
On the 12th of September in Moscow, Monaco Tourist and Convention Authority is going to present its new program for developing the Principality’s business travel segment in the coming years. As they were compiling the program, the country’s travel authorities learned from the progressive experience of the US, France, the UK, Germany and Italy. TRN magazine took some time before the presentation to find out what Maroco is going to offer for this complicated, but promising market.