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.
Diana Lavrikova, Press Secretary of Russian Railway Tours, told TRN magazine that demand for railway tours was quite good, and train tickets almost always sold out.
A new document makes it a lot easier to transport organized groups of children (8 or more kids) by train. It streamlines the requirements for feeding children, having a number of children’s medical certificates and providing a compulsory medical escort
According to the Mayor of Tatarstan’s capital, last year more than 1.5 million tourists visited the city
Currently the Republic of Karelia is the third most sought-after domestic destination among Russians. In 2013 it was visited by about 1.9 million people, and this number has been steadily growing ever since the crisis of 2008. TRN magazine sat down with Chairman of Karelia's State Committee for Tourism Valery Kiryanov to discuss the future of the regional tourism.
Air ticket sales account for $4.7bn of this amount, hotel rooms - $2.4bn, railway tickets - $0.9 and tour packages - $0.3bn.
Starting January 1, 2014 Federal Tariff Service is going to raise prices for seats in sitting and couchette carriages by 4.2%. It was announced on a press-conference by Vladimir Kalyapin, the first deputy CEO of Federal Passenger Company (FPC), TRN correspondent reports.
The meeting on partnership expansion between the Suomen Valtion Rautatiet (Finnish Railways) management representatives and tourist agents of St. Petersburg brought little result. ‘New opportunities for tourism’, which was the name of the meeting, were nowhere to be heard.
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