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.
The Rosaviatsiya Federal Air Transport Agency has authorized airlines Ak Bars Aero, Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise, Nordavia, Red Wings, S7 Airlines, Ural Airlines, Yakutia Airlines and Yamal Airlines to perform subsidized flights to the Republic of Crimea.
Starting March 27, Saint Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport officially gets a new lease of life: two old terminals were closed, and all flights are now serviced by the new Terminal 1
The initial quota of 20,500 people was reduced due to a massive reconstruction of Al-Haram mosque in Mecca. Dagestan got the largest quota among the Russian regions – 6 thousand people, Chechnya – 2.6 thousand people, and 1.4 thousand pilgrims will travel to Mecca from Ingushetia. The only Russian region that saw its quota for performing the Hajj increased this year was Tatarstan.
Today, like never before, Crimea has found itself in the global and Russian media spotlight. Travel Russian News magazine keeps its finger on the pulse and delivers the latest news about peninsula’s tourism and the industry’s development prospects and nuances as it is ‘breaking in’ the new Russian region. In this regard, we have initiated a National poll, which was conducted by our partner Superjob.ru. We present to you the poll’s results. Will Russians go to Crimea after all?
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.
A new document makes it a lot easier to transport organized groups of children (8 or more kids) by train. It streamlines the requirements for feeding children, having a number of children’s medical certificates and providing a compulsory medical escort
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.
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…
In March of 2013 TRN magazine released an interview with a representative of Bhutan’s tourist office in Russia. This year we have had another meeting with the country’s tourism authorities in order to get the latest news. TRN’s editor-in-chief had the opportunity to speak with Head of Planning and Projects Department of Bhutan’s Tourism Department Mr. Kinley Wangdi.
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