A single room in a three-star hotel will cost no more than 133 dollars per day during the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi 2014, while the average price of all hotels in total will be at 68 dollars. These are limits set by the state. Government will regulate the price of tickets for the Olympic competition in Sochi and will not allow speculative overvaluation of tickets.

Norwegian Embassy in Russia opens several visa centers. Now Russian tourists can apply for a visa in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Samara, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Krasnoyarsk, Sochi, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk and Ufa, Khabarovsk and Vladivostok. Visa service centers will be opened in these cities within the next two months.

In Kaliningrad the system of passport control will be simplified for cruise ship passengers, the Agency for International and Interregional Relations of the Kaliningrad region informed.

Altai Krai will present its resort opportunities at the tourism exhibition Freizeit-2012, which will be held in the city Bolzano, South Tyrol.

The archipelago of Franz Josef Land can soon be used for tourism purposes, the National Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said during the international conference "Security and Cooperation in the Arctic: New Frontiers" in Murmansk.

Tour operators have agreed with airlines to decline the number of flights twice from Novosibirsk to Turkey in the summer program of flights. The title of the most popular resort for Siberians gradually moves to Thailand, the Chairman of the Board of Novosibirsk Association of Tour Operators, Igor Solovyev said.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has instructed to update the concept of development of The Golden Ring of Moscow project, within the frames of which 12 foot and a 1 water tourist routes had been designed.

Moscow authorities are willing to spend more than 5 million rubles for the annual monitoring of the tourism market in Moscow, that will help clarify how much money and where tourists spend when coming to the capital, the newspaper Izvestia reports.

The Second International Tourism Forum will be held in Yaroslavl on May, 25-26 2012, Director of the Department of Economic Development of Yaroslavl region, Alexander Shutov said in an interview with Interfax.

Alexander Sirchenko, head of Department for domestic tourism development and state tourist projects said in the State Duma last Friday, that Federal Agency for Tourism had announced a competition among the central federal TV channels in Russia for showing a series of programs devoted to tourism in Russian regions.

Federal Antimonopoly Service plans to control the pricing policy because of the numerous complaints of airline passengers. As the "Russian newspaper" informed, FAS expects to involve colleagues from the CIS countries and the EU in this investigation.

Official opening ceremony of the Year of Russian Tourism in China will be held in Beijing Grand Theatre on March 23. This was announced at a press conference by the head of Federal Tourism Agency Alexander Radkov.

Special bus tours are supposed to appear in Moscow this summer.

Italy will be paralyzed by national strike of transport workers, who will be joined by immigrants on Thursday. According Euromag, the country will remain without trams and buses, subways and trains, as well as ferries for four hours.

The recentpolitical coup in the Maldives has caused anxiety among local residents who are trying to do everything possible to halt the decline in tourist popularity.