Президент РФ Дмитрий Медведев поддержал идею развивать в России внутренний туризм.

The operation of additional charter flights from Russia to Punta Cana and Puerto Plata from November will favour the estimates of the Ministry of Tourism concerning the indicator of number of the Russians tourists (100 thousand people).

Lake Baikal was declared by the Russians as the best place for ecotourism. Such conclusion has been made by the organizers of My Planet Travel Awards while counting all the votes for this natural sight. 

The Russian lovers of winter holidays preferred to visit Austrian ski resorts last year: Mayrhofen and Solden and the Italian Val di Fassa. Such data was received by Proalps company during the survey.

Sri Lanka introduces a new electronic system of visa issuance for the Russian tourists, announced RIA Novosti.

While obtaining the possibility of visa-free regime with the EU, Russia gets a new ally – The European Parliament (The EP). On September 27, 2011 the European deputies have approved the resolution which urges to simplify the visa issuance process for some countries including Russia.

In order to simplify the sense of direction for the foreigners, special red and white English signs were installed near the main sights of Moscow.

The level of the competition between the travel agents is high in Moscow (according to the statistics, every metro station has 33 companies), however only 8% of the residents of Moscow travel actively, others are only the potential clients.

Transaero air company plans to acquire big tour operator or chain of ticket agencies, announced Aleksandr Pleshakov, Chairman of the Board of Directors during the press conference in the framework of Leisure exhibition in Moscow.

The Head of the Federal Agency for tourism, Aleksandr Radkov offered to rebrand the image of Russia in order to increase the foreign tourist flow to the country, announces RIA Novosti.

The flight of Bulgaria Air with 135 tourists of Alma Tour SPB finally departed from Burgas on Wednesday evening to St. Petersburg instead of Friday (September 9), announced Oleg Moseev, Press Secretary of Rostourism.

More than 3.5 thousand Russians addressed their complaints to Rostourism from the beginning of the year, announced Izo Arakhamiya, the Head of Legal Department of Rostourism.

The reduction of the number of the Russian air companies won’t affect the regular air transportation of the country, announced Valery Okulov, Deputy Minister of Transport. He noted, that the Ministry had not decided yet how many air companies would be closed in Russia. 

The capital architects have created the first small rooms for the rest which will is called a Sleepbox.

The idea of the excluding of the tour operators from the Unified Federal Registre due to the providing of an unreliable information to the tourists, makes them sort of the hostages of the interests of the officials, thinks Vladimir Kantorovich, First Vice-President of Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR).