The Ministry considers necessary to establish self-regulated organizations in travel industry. SuchviewpointannouncedtheMinisterVitaliyMutko. Speaking about the terms Mr Mutko explained: “I think we will come to such decision by the end of the year.” 

Aeroflot left the operators without any discounts for airfares. The air carrier sold the tickets for retail clients for the prices lower than for wholesale buyers of travel companies. The tour operators can’t reduce the price for the tours and risk to lose their profits.

In September the decrease of revenues reached the maximum for the reporting period of 9 months (-51%). All the types of publications had a considerable decrease of September revenues to compare with August. The most unfavourable situation in September was with weekly and monthly magazines.

According to the data of UNWTO Russia takes 13th place of the level of inbound tourism. Every year 20 million people visit Russia; but the income from tourism is not so considerable, just 12 billion dollars (USD).

The results of summer season turned out to be more optimistic than the forecasts before the season.
Despite the forecasts of analysts, Russians went abroad for vacations even in crisis period. The structure of demand has changed; the average tour price was abated to compare with the previous year, but the general picture almost didn’t change.

Federal Agency for Tourism (Russiatourism) receives the documents from tour operators that completed all the formalities for new financial guarantees. According to the words of Evgeniy Pisarevskiy, Deputy Head of Federal Agency for Tourism, for the moment 247 companies were included to the Federal Registre with new financial guarantees. Besides, dozens of submitted documents are on approval at the moment.

The specialists of travel company Russian Express made a marketing research among the travel agencies from Moscow and other regions of Russia about Tunisia as a tourist destination.

It turned out, that Tunisia keeps on being on constant demand and being reckoned among 10 top popular summer destinations for Russians. However, Tunisia is more popular for tourists from Europe, than from Russia. As a result of survey, the factors holding back the tourist flow from Russia were revealed.