Sunday, May 19, 2024
Radisson Hospitality AB, the company that owns global upscale hotel chain Radisson Blu, has signed a deal to open a hotel on Moscow’s Leninsky Prospect, its third in the Russian capital, TASS news agency reported. A collaboration with Sherwood Premier LLC, a subsidiary of Russian gas giant Novatek, the hotel...
For the fourth time, Sheremetyevo International Airport held its annual SVO Awards, highlighting the achievements of Russian and international aviation partners for the current year, AEX.RU reports. The winners were determined on the basis of punctuality performance of flights, transportation performance and passenger loyalty. Among foreign carriers, the most punctual...
The opening of the Canadian Cirque du Soleil's stationary stage in Skolkovo is “unacceptable and wrong,” Edgar Zapashny, the director of the Big Moscow Circus, has said during a meeting of the Presidential Council on Culture and Art on Saturday, RIA news agency reports. According to him, the move will negatively affect...
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...
The management of Ramport Aero, operator of Russia’s Zhukovsky Airport (ZIA), has decided to create a new airline called WeGo Air – which, it is hoped, will become the base carrier at the airport, Interfax reports. The new passenger airline is being prepared to start operations next April, initially...
Around 460,000 holidaymakers from Russia have visited Dubai in the first nine months of 2018, a 60% increase compared to the same period last year, the emirate’s tourism authority has said, according to Prian.ru. An increase in Russian overnight guests was the result of 19% growth in air capacity across non-stop...
The photo exhibition “Maly Theater on Tour”, which shows different cities where the theater has performed in recent years, will open on Tuesday at Sheremetyevo Airport, RIA Novosti reports. During the last few years, the “Maly Theater” has toured about 50 cities in Russia and abroad. The theater was particularly...
Sheremetyevo Airport’s staff held a tour for high school students from the Moscow region, during which they had the opportunity to meet pilots, flight attendants and dispatchers. The event was organized within the pilot project “Future Personnel for the Regions,” 360tv reported. There are about 60 air traffic controllers in...
Sheremetyevo International Airport took part in the FoodService 2018 Forum - Russia's largest business event for restaurateurs, AviaPort informs. For the 11th successive time, the FoodService magazine gathered more than 500 professionals from the restaurant industry. The airport’s Deputy General Director for Commercial Activities, Denis Pashkovsky, made a report on...
India’s tourism minister Joseph Alphons Kannanthanam has said his country is ready to accept a proposal from Moscow for visa-free entry to Russian tourists groups in India. In an interview with TASS news agency, the official said that granting a no visa entry to Russian tourist groups is a good idea...