The State Pushkin reserve museum “Mikhaylovskoye” received the Senkevich national tourism award. The presentation of the award took place on September 27 in Moscow President Hotel.

This festal day was established at a session of the World Tourist Organization in Manila in 1979. On this day numerous festivals and tourist congresses take place in many countries including Russia.

Moscow metro transports 2.6 billion passengers a year and possesses 280 km of two-way routes and 595 escalators.

OAG has announced the busiest routes in the world. Flights between Barcelona and Madrid are topping the list. Russia's busiest route is Moscow-St.Petersburg with 470 flights a week.

72-hour visas for foreigners may be soon introduced in Moscow. It should be issued at Moscow airports upon arrival.

Comic souvenirs will be banned from selling in Arbat. No more Russian traditional winter hats with National Emblem will be sold.

A new international health resort is to be built in Sol-Iletsk town not far from salt and mineral mud lakes, which healing power is similar to that of the Dead sea.

Aeroflot Russian Airlines has announced an autumn sale "Happy ticket days" from 14 September to 20 September.

A hundred new hotels will be built in the centre of Moscow by 2010. Eighty of them will be affordable 3-star hotels.

Tours to Russian dachas (small countryside villages) have become extremely popular among the Japanese. What was once almost the only means for Russians to spend vacation, now attracts tourists from Japan to Vladivostok's suburbs.