Olga Kovitidi, Crimea’s Member of Federation Council, has held a press-conference in Moscow, where she gave a rundown on the peninsula’s travel season so far.
New international flights have been added to the schedule of the Moscow airports in 2014.
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)
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.
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.
Experts say that the resort’s popularity will increase thanks to the positive effect of the Olympics and pent up demand
From 30% to 80% of tourists who bought tours for the New Year holidays merged the holidays with the following weekends – December 30 and 31, as well as January 9 and 10. This means that their holidays will now last for 12-14 days on average. TRN magazine got this information from tour operators that largely benefitted from the government’s order “On moving holidays in 2014”.
According to the analysis of the internet searches for summer holiday programs
Russia is second with 531 thousand arrivals, constituting 5.5% of the overall tourist flow.
The most sought-after outbound destinations from January to September were Turkey (2.7 million people,+20%), Egypt (1.4 million people,+17%), Greece (1.1 million,+69%), Spain (887.1 thousand,+29%), China (787.2 thousand,-20%), Finland (787.1 thousand,+102%), Thailand (683 thousand,+23%), Germany (638.1 thousand,+20%), Italy (605.5 thousand,+31%).