TRN magazine sat down with experts to discuss prospects for the destination in case Crimea joins Russia. Mass media reports that the State Duma is planning on reviewing a bill on facilitating the process of joining new subjects to the territory of Russia
Travel Russian News magazine and Superjob.ru are ready to present the results of another joint research aimed at determining the attitude of Russians to a wide-spread tour operator service – early booking, and also at finding out which countries are often booked in advance.
Bookings for the destination are in full swing, and they extend up till October. According to Russian tour operators, demand for Krasnodar Krai may rise 30% during the summer season.
In March, right after the spring week of travel business professionals, another important event is slated to take place – a meeting between travel business leaders and travel students
According to tour operators, not all rooms in Sochi hotels have been occupied by fans. It is still possible to book rooms in mini-hotels and guest houses, but only in those that are removed from the main Olympic facilities.
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
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.
This makes it one of the top five leading regions of the Central Federal District