The JSC “Council on tourism and excursions in St.-Petersburg” has worked out a program of modernization of the hotels owned by the company into SPA hotels

More than 160 thousand tourists have visited wilderness areas and historic sites of Middle Ural.

29 hotels and camping sites with the total capacity of 200 rooms have been built in Karelia this year.

The tour “Guberniya Ring” is expected to connect such historic towns as Serpukhov, Mozhaisk, Volokolamsk, Klin, Dmitrov, Sergiev Posad and Kolomna and to become the most visited and competitive travel route of the region

The first specimen of an advanced detector for explosive and narcotic substances “Ionscan” has been put into operation in the international airport Domodedovo

The first specimen of an advanced detector for explosive and narcotic substances “Ionscan” has been put into operation in the international airport Domodedovo

On the 28th of September the air company “Vladivostok Avia” started a new international airline Vladivostok – Hanoi – Vladivostok.

The opening of a regular flight Moscow – Kuala-Lumpur – Moscow has been called by the director of Malaysian national travel agency Mr. Khashim Ismail a turning point in the history of tourism relations of the two countries

It is possible that Russia and Switzerland will simplify reciprocal visa regime, reported on Thursday the Russian ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein Dmitry Cherkashin.

The incoming tourism enjoyed a 40 per cent growth in the first semester of this year as compared to the same period of 2003, reported the Chairman of the Tourism Committee of Moscow Grigoriy Antyufeev.