Taken in absolute terms, it was 70.9m people. Passenger traffic on international air lines of the Moscow airports takes up 44% of this figure (18.1m)
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.
In order to achieve this result, the region’s authorities deem it necessary to expand the destination’s tourism capabilities not only for summer, but for winter as well. Also, special attention will be paid to developing domestic tourism and attracting tourists from Russian regions.
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.
Despite the fact that the first accommodation facilities situated in residential houses emerged in Russia as far back as 15 years ago, their legal status remains undefined: the first amendments to the Russian Civil Code that could legalize these businesses are only slated to be reviewed in the second half of 2014
According to Deputy Russian Ministry of Culture Alla Manilova, who said it during the conference ‘Government Support for Small Hotels and Small Businesses in Tourism’
Many health resort facilities of Crimean village Peschanoe are experiencing problems with booking
First visitors are expected to come on Victory Day, which is going to be celebrated on quite a great scale here this year, and then more tourists are expected at the celebration of Navy Day and at various festivals.
Turkish authorities have made a decision to move the date of the new rules on the validity period of foreign passports becoming effective to the end of this year, TRN magazine was told in the Turkish Embassy’s Moscow department of culture and tourism.
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.