The DSBW travel agency has come out with a third version of its online search engine. Pavel Gusyatnikov, the company’s deputy development officer, told TRN magazine about the new functionality and the user-friendly services of the updated system, about innovations and intelligent approach, and about the growing market of online booking.
The leaders of online travel business gathered in the Moscow ‘Aerostar’ hotel on November 14-15 for the annual conference E-Travel, with Travel Russian News magazine as the media sponsor. Representatives of more than 30 companies from Russia, Denmark, India and the UK presented reports and took part in panel discussions on the most urgent and relevant topics.
80% of the Eastern European market of travel service online sales is controlled by 20% of the companies operating within the business. Such were the results gathered during a PhoCusWright research in Eastern European countries, which were announced by the company’s spokesman, Krasimir Simonski, on the international conference ‘Air Transport Marketing and Sales’ that was held in Moscow on November 21-22.
During the First Russian-Chinese Culture and Tourism Forum that took place earlier in St. Petersburg, culture ministers of Russia and China, Vladimir Medinsky and Cai Wu, signed an agreement on new cooperation programs for 2014-2016, reports the TRN correspondent.
Russian Union of Travel Industry has sent a letter to Thailand’s tourism minister Somsak Pureesrisak voicing concerns about the safety of Russian tourists in the country, as TRN magazine has learnt from the Union.
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.
According Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic, immediate attention is being paid to fostering tourism in the country. Local authorities have launched two major investment projects – ‘Veduchi’ and ‘Kezenoy-am’. In addition to that, the Chechen tourism committee is to hold a publicity event for travel agencies in the middle of November.
According to the WTTC estimate, Russian business travel market is bound to grow from $6.5bn to $18.4bn by 2020, with the year-over-year growth of 6%. Global market is to spike from $820bn in 2010 to $1600bn in 2020 with the growth rate of 4.3% a year. However, on an ICCA (International Congress and Convention Association) Central European chapter meeting that took place in St. Petersburg experts deemed many Russian cities to have large potential in the MICE sector. Yet due to a number of reasons this large potential is largely wasted, and TRN magazine is here to discover why…
On the 12th of September in Moscow, Monaco Tourist and Convention Authority is going to present its new program for developing the Principality’s business travel segment in the coming years. As they were compiling the program, the country’s travel authorities learned from the progressive experience of the US, France, the UK, Germany and Italy. TRN magazine took some time before the presentation to find out what Maroco is going to offer for this complicated, but promising market.