According to travel search engine Kayak, during the first week of February the number of search queries regarding the flights to the host city of 2014 Olympics has grown 15% compared to the first week of January. Despite the increasingly high demand, it is currently possible to buy a one-way ticket from Moscow to Sochi for 3,000 rubles ($85). Kayak analysts project the prices to drop even more in a few days. It is also possible to find a vacant room for the coming weekend at an affordable price.
Ethnographic tourism is the trademark of Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug. However, the region’s travel authorities are looking to attract pilgrim and family tourists. As for the okrug’s capital, Khanty-Mansiysk, the town is already devising a programme for 2015 celebrations in order to get the status of the New Year’s Capital of Russia.
You do not have to leave Russia if you want to see Buddhist temples, learn the secret of the shaman’s tambourine, and feel closer to the nature. All this and more awaits you on a trip to one of the remote and truly unique regions of the country – the Tuva Republic. TRN magazine spoke with Tuva’s Minister of Culture Vyacheslav Dongak about the course of development for the republic’s tourism.
Travel companies report high booking rates for Sochi. Last year 3.8 million tourists spent their holidays in Sochi. The growth of the tourist flow for the spa and resort complex was 30%.
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.
It has been announced at Europe+Asia Event Forum 2014, which has been held in the city
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