The regional government in Russia’s Murmansk hopes helping tour operators, developing the region’s brand, and raising the quality of services will help increase domestic and foreign tourism, TV 21 reports.
On Thursday, the acting governor of Murmansk Region Andrei Chibis opened a new tourist information centre in the city of...
German company LSG Sky Chefs has opened a new customer service centre at Novosibirsk Tolmachevo International Airport (OVB) in Russia, where it has been present through a joint venture agreement with airport owner Novaport since 2012.
According to Aircrafts Interiors International, the company said it became necessary to build a...
A total of 232,000 tourist visits were made to the Russian Federation from Estonia in the first half of 2019, according to Russian tourism agency TurStat, a 9 percent rise year-on-year (y-o-y), ERR reports.
The figure makes Estonia the ninth most significant country for tourism to Russia, BNS reports.
The report...
The Deputy Director of Russia’s Federal Tourist Agency, Sergey Korneev, has hit out at Finland’s decision to tighten up the visa application process for Russian tourists, saying the new requirements could have negative consequences for tourism to Finland, Izvestia reports.
In August, the Finnish government announced it would bring the...
Arctic tourism is developing as a fashion trend, though it lacks the necessary infrastructure, especially on the regional level, the deputy head of the Russian tourism authority has said, according to Regnum.
“We see the growing fashion for exotic Arctic tourism in various forms, and the trend is growing. <…> Tourists...
The 2019 posed new challenges for The Boeing Company. On the eve of the MAKS-2019 air show in Russia, Randy Tinseth, marketing vice president for Boeing, told ATO Show Observer (Russian Aviation Insider’s sister publication) about compensations to 737 MAX operators, prospects for the Russian and Central Asia market...
Sheremetyevo International Airport announced the results of the open contest of external innovations SVOya Idea 2019. Every year, the airport receives innovative suggestions from passengers and employees and awards the authors of the best ideas with valuable prizes.
Traditionally, all suggestions fall into one of four categories: Passenger Leisure, Development...
Art. Lebedev Studio has created a new visual concept to keep Sheremetyevo's passengers informed about self-service tools. Thanks to new content design, information about self-service opportunities has become extremely accessible without passengers having to focus on monitors and panels.
Monitors informing passengers about self-service tools are installed in inter-terminal trains...
Russia’s new Irkut MC-21 passenger plane was unveiled on Wednesday at the MAKS-2019 air show, is billed as a competitor to Western giants Boeing and Airbus even though the project has been hampered by sanctions and setbacks with its predecessor, the Sukhoi Superjet, the Associated Press reports.
The new narrow-body...
A Russian travel association uniting some 200 companies working with the Chinese tourism market said on Sunday it expects Chinese tourists to spend more than 72 billion rubles ($1.1 billion) in Russia in 2019, Regnum reports.
World Without Borders based its forecast on the Bank of Russia’s official statistics for the...
