It is no secret that Russian tourism statistics are far from perfect and can only be described as confounding. For instance, Rosstat puts the number of ‘pure’ tourists who visited Russia in 2012 at a mere 2.57 million, while according to the St. Petersburg authorities’ measurements, 3 million foreigners came to the city during the same year.
There are a few factors that bode well for the Russian tourist flow to France
The meeting between Deputy Russian Minister of Transport Valery Okulov and Mauritian Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Russia Indira Sidaya was devoted to discussing agreements on the implementation of direct regular daily flights to Mauritius via Russian airlines
Over the past few years Italy has enjoyed increased demand from Russian skiing enthusiasts. The last season put Val di Fassa at the first spot in the rating by the marketing agency Proalps, which was compiled based on the Russian arrivals statistic for the Alpine resorts.
Experts say that the resort’s popularity will increase thanks to the positive effect of the Olympics and pent up demand
The business meeting of the management of ‘Turpomosch’ (‘Tourist help’) with travel companies of the North-West took place in St. Petersburg. The participants discussed the nature of the organization’s work, its inner workings and prospects.
Local travel companies credit online promotion for the rising sales
Tour operator DSBW presents the Index of Guided Tours ‘EXDEX’ for January 2014 and its forecast for February 2014. We’d like to draw your attention to the fact that EXDEX consists of two indicators – Index of demand for guided tours EXDEX-D and price index of guided tours EXDEX-P.
The award ceremony was organized by Independent online magazine Travel Russian News, Marketing communications agency PR2POINT and website Superjob.ru, with the help of Channel One Russia.
It has been announced at Europe+Asia Event Forum 2014, which has been held in the city