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Around 632,000 Russian holidaymakers have visited Tunisia in the first eleven months of 2019, a 5% increase in numbers from last year, the Tunisian National Tourism Office has said, according to Asharq al-Awsat. The North African country expects to welcome 3,000 more Russian visitors before the end of December, Tourism...
U.S.-based international hotel and resort chain Wyndham plans to open 15 new hotels in Russia and neighboring countries within the next two years, RusTourism News reports.  Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is the world’s largest hotel franchising company with over 9,200 hotels and 20 brands across more than 80 countries. The company...
Sheremetyevo International Airport is listed among the best employers in Russia by Forbes magazine, which rated the airport number 33 among Russia's top 50, Airport World reported. The Forbes rating is based on a global survey of the corporate culture and practices of the largest Russian companies. The survey encompassed 150...
Increases in passenger traffic and takeoffs and landings at Sheremetyevo International airport helped Sheremetyevo JSC achieve significant growth in financial performance over the first nine months of 2019. Revenue under RAS amounted to 29,504 million rubles, an increase of 27.4 percent compared to the same period in 2018, including...
Russia’s Ural Airlines launched its first-ever flight from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport (DME) to London Stansted Airport (STN) on Friday, Business Traveler reports.  The four times weekly service is being operated by a 160-seater Airbus A320 aircraft, configured with the economy and business class cabins. According to Stansted airport, one-way fares...
The regions of Russia's Far East could propose establishing medical tourism programs to lure in visitors from Asian countries, the CEO of Russia's Far East Development Fund Alexei Chekunkov said in an interview with RIA Novosti. "In the sphere of medical tourism, we have an interesting project on Sakhalin Island....
Azimuth Airlines, the world’s only air carrier operating a fleet consisting only of Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100) aircraft, has reached breakeven point in the third quarter of 2019, its co-owner has said this week in an interview with state-run TV news-channel Rossiya-24. Azimuth, launched just two years ago, has succeeded...
A high-level delegation from Russia arrived in Israel on Thursday in an attempt to curb what appears as a diplomatic tit-for-tat game between Moscow and Tel Aviv over tourist entries, The Times of Israel reports. The visit comes a day after dozens of Israelis were reportedly detained for hours at...
Sheremetyevo International Airport carried out a highly successful exercise in managing emergency relief operations on December 11 as part of the All-Russian Command and Staff Exercises on emergency operations. The exercises were held simultaneously at transportation facilities in several regions of the Russian Federation in accordance with the Executive...
Russia's Far East has enormous potential - tourism experts, investors, and representatives of the authorities all agreed at the recently held Eastern Russia Tourism Week in Sakhalin, according to East Russia.  The region shows big promise and tour agents are eager to offer new itineraries, the news outlet writes.  Russia's Sakhalin...