No paper ticket is now required to board a train running between Russia and Belarus - e-tickets are there to stay.

A Russian fairy tale wooden house is exhibited as part of the installation on Helsinki Metro.

Not to be outdone by Google, Yandex is testing a Russian version of Hotel Finder, in co-operation with two online hotel booking systems.

A new hotel by Rezidor Hotel Group will come to Sheremetyevo airport within a year. A Radisson Blu hotel will complement a currently working Park Inn, also by Rezidor.

Moscow is the largest university centre and will have to become also a centre of youth tourism, especially during student holidays.

According to preliminary data, the main sea passenger port of St. Petersburg will take 241 ship entries in 2013, and the number of tourists served by the port will increase by 6-9%.

Caucasus Minerlanye Vody can become a modern centre of medical tourism within the framework of modernization and rebranding planned by the state corporation "The Resorts of the North Caucasus".

The flights will be conducted from April, 5 once a week (on Fridays) on the aircraft B-777-200 with the 307 and 324 layouts of economy seats and business class seats.

The XII interregional exhibition of tourist services and hospitality technologies "The Gates to the North" happened from 15 to 17 February 2013 in Vologda.

"Russian Railways" JSC stopped to charge insurance fee on the sale of travel documents on January 24, 2013. The obligatory private passenger insurance was canceled according to the presidential decree from January 19, 2013.