The region aims to achieve this result after completing project Amberlend – a new resort and entertainment town.
More than 3,000 charter flights will be organized between Russia and Thailand during the coming winter season of 2014–15.
According to experts, the demand for river cruises in Russia’s European part is higher than the year before. Neither the shallowing of the River Volga nor Rechtourflot LLC taking French leave without fulfilling the obligations to its clients could affect the cruise industry.
Despite the losses suffered by tour operators, experts believe that the total tourist flow from Russia to Crimea may well reach last year's results.
Travel season in Abkhazia is not exactly going without a hitch. There had been an upsize in early bookings, but the political situation, as it so often does, undermined the plans, and demand dropped.
CEO of Versa tour operator expects the market conditions to stabilize within the coming weeks. “And if our tourists believe us and understand that they are protected, the situation will take even less to normalize,” he added.
The Russian Ministry of Culture has announced a set of measures for regulating the travel market that it has put together during the recent expert committee meeting. According to Deputy Minister of Culture Alla Manilova, these measures are adequate and do not put pressure on the market, aiming to make it more suited to the modern standards and more transparent.
Just as DSBW analysts predicted a month ago, in July 2014 the demand for excursion tours to Europe grew almost 19% as compared to June. At the same time, prices for excursion tours have dropped a little, about 6%. These are the results of Excursion Tour Index EXDEX for July 2014, which was compiled by the DSBW analysts.
The key hurdle facing Russia’s travel industry today is, without a doubt, the lack of information on holiday offers in the domestic market. Poor awareness of our homeland’s beauty and richness, scarceness of information regarding tours and accommodation and outdated prices all come together to put a damper on domestic tourism growth.
Only the countries with highly-developed travel industries have the privilege of actively fostering ecotourism. Vivid and bright Thailand, which has been gaining a lot of traction popularity-wise lately, is definitely among these countries. Travel business representatives from the world’s top tourist destinations were presented the philosophy of the Thai way of life at the Thailand Travel Mart (TTM+) exhibition.
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