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.
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.
Today, like never before, Crimea has found itself in the global and Russian media spotlight. Travel Russian News magazine keeps its finger on the pulse and delivers the latest news about peninsula’s tourism and the industry’s development prospects and nuances as it is ‘breaking in’ the new Russian region. In this regard, we have initiated a National poll, which was conducted by our partner Superjob.ru. We present to you the poll’s results. Will Russians go to Crimea after all?
Local travel companies have prepared a variety of tours for travelers. Crimea’s Resorts and Tourism Ministry is still at work compiling a catalogue of tourism products of 2014, which will include tour operators’ offers and a list of tourist sites with a detailed description of hotels, health resorts and children’s facilities of the region.
Food excursions are now being organized in the open-air museum ‘Ust-Sos’ in Beysky District of Khakassia
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.
Bookings for the summer season in Bulgaria are intermittent at the moment, with both ups and downs. Experts believe that dumping and carriage oversaturation are unavoidable this coming season
The Austrian Tourism Office presented travel opportunities of the European country to Siberians at the SITT exhibition, which opened in Novosibirsk Expoсentre on April 10. It is of note that 55% of global tourists prefer to go on holidays to Austria in summer, and 45% – in winter. As for Russia, only 32% of Russian tourists go to this country in summer, and 68% – in winter.
Demand for excursion tours to Europe is expected to drop 25.62% in April. Such is the forecast compiled by DSBW’s analysts based on the Excursion Tour Index EXDEX for March of 2014. According to the experts’ findings, the number of search queries for excursion tours to Europe in various online booking systems will amount to 20,172 in April, as opposed to 27,121 in this year’s March.
On the eve of the Moscow spring week of travel business professionals, a new General Director of Tunisia’s National Tourism Office was appointed – Khaled Trabelsi, who then visited MITT-2014. TRN magazine took an exclusive interview with the new appointee, where he shed some light on the plans for developing the destination on the Russian market, the inner workings of the country’s tourism and the nuances of promoting Tunisia.