For the purpose of attracting the tourists, Thailand uses the proved method – discounts and special offers. The tourists are not in a hurry to travel to Thailand now, being concerned about the aftereffects of the flood.

1.4 million foreign tourists visited Lithuania during 9 months of 2011. As Lithuanian State Department of Tourism announced to Tourinfo’s correspondent, 1.5 million people visited the country in 2010. It’s planning that this year will be finished with the increase of 20%.

The number of the Russian tourists in China amounted to 897.4 thousand people during the first 6 months of 2011. As for the Chinese tourists in Russia, the number amounted to 308 thousand people.

The tourists from Europe visit Russia more actively (Germany, France, UK, Italy). The most promising markets for Russia are China, India, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Korea, Turkey and Iran. At the same time, the problems with infrastructure hold back the development of these markets.

Health tourism takes not more than 1% of all the tourist flow from Russia. In 2010 only 120 thousand Russians (from 12 million people who traveled abroad) had holidays for health or medical purposes. At the same time, the Russian health resorts received 4.5 million Russians (3% of the population of the country).

Malta is planning to receive 25-26 thousand tourists from Russia (+15% in comparison with last year), announced Antony Caruana, Director of Malta Tourism Office in Russia and CIS countries.

More than 11 million people arrived in Greece by air during the period from January to October 2011 (+9.6%). Among the islands, the leading position held Crete. The airport (Heraklion) of this island received 2 169 000 foreign visitors during 10 months. 

Lufthansa is planning to increase considerably the air transportation from Berlin starting from the next summer. A new big airport (Berlin-Brandenburg) will be opened in Berlin in June 2012. It will replace two working airports: Schonefeld and Tegel.

Russia and the European Union will finish the discussion of the visa-free regime terms during the Summit in Brussels in December. Such information has been announced by the Russian mass media with the reference to Sergey Lavrov, the Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Пакетные туры на Чемпионат Европы по футболу 2012 года, который пройдет в Украине и Польше, появятся в продаже в середине декабря, сообщил руководитель отдела спортивных программ компании "Роза ветров" Леонид Мосин.

The Federal Agency for Tourism (Rostourism) has prepared a two-sided booklet about the Olympic facilities in Sochi and about the cities where 2018 Soccer World Cup games will be organized.

The metro may reach Moscow airports Vnukovo and Domodedovo, announced Nikolay Shumakov, the Chief Architect of Metrogiprotrans.

It is possible now to receive the information about some historical places, the location of the streets, addresses and telephones, working hours of the organizations, public transportation’s schedule, price and availability of the tickets.

Next month the Russians will have a national holiday. We will have 3 days off in succession during the first week of November. The Day of National Unity will be celebrated on Friday (November 4). So the Russians will have the days off from 4th till 6th inclusive, announces Utro portal.

The administration of Vladimirskaya oblast announced about their intention to create a multifunctional ecological park “Suzdal”. 60 billion rubles will be invested in this project.