Situation is complicated with the Crimean destination. On the one hand, hotels and health resorts of the peninsula are ready for tourists, and Russian tourists themselves are ready and willing to go to Crimea. The only problem – the issue of carriage remains unresolved. Most Russians used to travel to Crimea by train, but now many fear using railroads due to the volatile situation in Ukraine. Russian authorities are hard at work trying to set up some safe and cheap way by which to transport tourists. The success of the tourist season in Crimea hinges on how fast this way will be found. TRN magazine spoke to a number of experts in order to get the full picture.
It has been over a year since Ruben Beltran received his credentials as Mexico’s ambassador to Russia. In this interview TRN magazine asked the ambassador about the progress that was the embassy has made during the past year in regard to consolidating tourism ties between the two countries, and about what there was still left to do…
The Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) has published draft regulations for state funding of airlines aimed at making flights to Simferopol and back more affordable
Russian tour operators believe that demand for Krasnodar Krai may grow 30% during the summer season. Bookings are coming in at a high rate and extend till October
That is what Head of the Development Department of the Moscow Tourism and Hotel Business Committee Alexandr Kolesnikov believes, and he spoke about that during the business meeting ‘New Framework: Travel Business and Universities’. According to him, right now the capital’s travel firms are in need of about 4 thousand specialists.
In March of 2013 TRN magazine released an interview with a representative of Bhutan’s tourist office in Russia. This year we have had another meeting with the country’s tourism authorities in order to get the latest news. TRN’s editor-in-chief had the opportunity to speak with Head of Planning and Projects Department of Bhutan’s Tourism Department Mr. Kinley Wangdi.
The project of the resort was included in the federal program ‘Developing Domestic Tourism in the Russian Federation’, and it is being financed from the state budget and from private capital. The construction is slated to end in 2018
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.
During the past year a record-high number of tourists visited Spain’s Catalonia, spending record amounts of money for the region. Being one of the main markets for Catalonia, Russia ranked fifth as to the number of arrivals. At the same time, Catalonia is still the most popular Spanish tourist region among Russians.
The source of financing is the budget of the federal program ‘Development of domestic and inbound tourism in Russia’
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