The Tourism and Exhibition Authority of Bahrain (BTEA) says the country attracted more than 10,000 Russian tourists through a charter program operated by tour operator Coral Travel, Zawya reports.
This was part of the BTEA’s efforts to attract tourists from new markets to the Kingdom of Bahrain, as the first...
Russia’s federal air transport agency (Rosaviatsiya) said in a preliminary report for April that the number of passengers carried by Russian airlines was up 12.1% year-on-year and stood at 8.97 million, Rosaviainsider.com reports.
Russia’s top five airlines experienced good growth in the month, according to the agency’s data. Flag...
Sheremetyevo ranks as the sixth best airport in the world for 2019, passenger rights company AirHelp announced last week. The top three spots for this year are claimed by Doha’s Hamad International Airport, Tokyo Haneda International Airport, and Athens International Airport.
The AirHelp rating is determined by calculating on-time performance,...
The Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) and the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RATA) have signed an agreement on cooperation in Tokyo on Tuesday, BigAsia.ru reported.
The two sides agreed to organize joint events for developing tourism and increasing tourism flows between the two countries.
"Thanks to this agreement we will...
Sheremetyevo Airport has been ranked among the top 10 best airports in the world for 2019, according to passenger rights company AirHelp, Bloomberg reports.
The airports are rated based on three factors: on-time performance, service quality, and food and shopping options. The first accounts for 60 percent of the score...
The number of tourists coming to Bulgaria for the 2019 summer season from Germany and Russia has declined, while 50% more Ukrainians are visiting the country, Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said, according to Novinite.
Angelkova said that she hoped that these increases would compensate in the decrease in...
Rossiya Airlines, part of Aeroflot Group, has stopped flights from Moscow to Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Denpasar (Bali, Indonesia), the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) said on Tuesday, according to TASS.
All the flights after May holidays (the last flight will be on May 11) until July are...
Russia’s transport minister said there was no reason to ground the country’s fleet of Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft, as investigators tried to determine what forced a jet to make an emergency landing and burst into flames, killing dozens, Interfax reported.
Asked by reporters at a news conference if the Sukhoi...
British multinational hospitality company InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has opened three new hotels in Russia and Georgia in recent weeks with a further five venues in the CIS region set to open over the coming months, Tophotel reported.
So far in 2019, IHG has opened the Crowne Plaza Ufa-Congress Hotel and...
Kosmokurs, a Russian company developing suborbital space tourism flights, has begun testing its rocket and space technology, according to its CEO, Pavel Pushkin.
"We began a strength test of the engine wall samples, they were manufactured and sent to a laboratory," Pushkin told Sputnik news agency.
State space corporation Roscosmos issued...
