Russians participating in a nationwide online poll have chosen to rename Moscow's gateway international airport after the beloved 19th-century poet Aleksandr Pushkin, local media reported.
According to Interfax, a majority of participants chose to swap the airport's current name, Sheremetyevo, for Pushkin, whose writings have been adored and memorized by...
The tourist outflow from Russia during the coming holiday season may turn out to be ten percent higher than last year, but the trend can hardly be described as positive since it is just in line with overall market growth recorded in 2018, experts told business newspaper Kommersant.
Analysts believe...
The Greece-Russia Year of Tourism 2017-2018, an initiative of the tourism ministries of the two countries, wrapped up last Friday with a big music and dance event held at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron), TASS news agency reported.
Greek Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura opened the event, saying that tourism unites...
Tehran and Moscow may establish tourism via the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake which separates their borders,Travel Russia News reports.
“One of the proposals we voiced during the talks with the Russian Minister of Transport was the creation of a sea tourist service, so that we could transport passengers...
Aeroflot has congregated all of its domestic operations at the new Terminal B at its Sheremetyevo (IATA code: SVO) Moscow hub airport, with some 400 daily federal flights operating from the terminal from mid-November 2018, Russian Aviation Insider reported.
Russia’s national carrier has completed the transfer of all of its...
Russia and Belarus are working together on a tourism atlas titled “Traveling Together: Russia-Belarus,” Viktoria Abramchenko, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of Russia, has said, according to BelTA news agency.
The State Property Committee of Belarus and Rosreestr, the Russian Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography presented...
Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot Group carried 47.0 million passengers in October, up 10.3% year-on-year, the company said while presenting its operating results for last month, according to Finanz.ru.
The airline carried 29.9 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 8.0%. Group and Revenue Passenger Kilometers (RPKs) increased by 9.1% and 6.2%...
Tanzania has scooped the Best Destination award in the Exotic Destination category in a poll conducted by the National Geographic Magazine’s Russian travel guide, IPP Media reports.
According to a statement released yesterday by Tanzania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation, the country’s ambassador to Russia, Simon...
Russia’s aviation authorities are facing a great shortage of funds for the reconstruction of regional airfields, which according to sources cited by business newspaper Kommersant, a number of projects were postponed ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Experts believe that the shortage of funds will primarily affect numerous small...
Over 213,000 American tourists visited Russia in the first nine months of this year, a number 30% higher than in 2014, when relations between Russia and the U.S. began to deteriorate, Izvestya reports citing data from the Federal Security Service (FSB).
Despite the ongoing diplomatic spat between both countries, the inflow...
