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Russia’s civil aviation watchdog Rosaviatsiya has said that a debt-ridden travel operator, whose Russian customers have been unable to return home from China, has issued falsified itinerary receipts to some of them. According to Sergei Izvolsky, a spokesman for the agency and tour operator Pearl River, the Russian authorities were...
Russia and Iran held talks on resumption of flights between the two countries and expansion of air travel after quarantine restrictions are eased, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said in a press release on Saturday, TASS reported. At the Russian Deputy Transport Ministry, Director of the State Civil Aviation...
As 2020 came to a close, Sheremetyevo International Airport had launched new infrastructure facilities and introduced a number of valuable services for passengers and corporate clients. The beginning of 2020 was marked by the commissioning of the international Terminal C, designed for 20 million passengers annually. During the design and...
There will be no price hike for package tours and routes in 2020, Vice President of the Russian Travel Industry Union Yuri Barzykin said in an interview with the Zvezda TV Channel, TASS reported. "Will the package tours and routes become more expensive this year? No, they will not be...
According to RIA, Aeroflot's official spokesman Mikhail Demin indicated that the airline will add more flights to Turkish cities. One flight each day will travel to Antalya, Bodrum, and Dalaman, and two to Istanbul, according to Aeroflot. The carrier's spokesman underlined that the number of flights in the future may...
The global tourism industry met at Bit, the fortieth edition of BitMilano which ended last Tuesday after three days full of dynamic networking and high-quality content. The event brought together more than 1,100 exhibitors from 68 countries, both Italian and international destinations, DMC/DMO, hotel chains, tour operators, a network...
Investments in infrastructure of the Arctic Tourism Cluster in the Krasnoyarsk Region’s north are estimated at 5.2 billion rubles ($81 million), the project’s coordinator — the Norilsk Development Agency — told Komsomolskaya Pravda. The cluster will incorporate territories of Norilsk, Dudinka and the Putorana Plateau. Norilsk will be a center of...
Russian aviation authorities are considering imposing restrictions on nighttime operations at some of its largest domestic airports, according to recent statements made by senior Russian Ministry of Transport officials and local analysts. “Noisy” aircraft may also be banned, particularly those of Russian origin, AIN Online News informed. An official spokesman of...
Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO) has scored a major coup with the transfer of Rossiya Airline's flights from Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport. The change will take place in the 2018/19 winter season. Rossiya is an regional carrier and is part of the Aeroflot Group, with headquarters in St Petersburg. Starting on Oct. 28th, Rossiya's...
Electronic visas and easier visa formalities for foreign visitors to the Russian Arctic are set to attract more tourists to the region, the deputy head of the country’s Federal Agency for Tourism, Sergei Korneyev told the Arctic: Today and the Future international forum on Thursday. "We could without major financial...