Famous Russian traveler Fyodor Konyukhov steered his Turgoyak rowboat out of the yacht club in the town of Concon on the Pacific coast of Chile.

Multifunctional ecological complex Zapovednoye Posolstvo projected to be in Moscow's heart, in Zaryadye Park which will be located in Hotel Russia's place. The full name of the complex is Environmental Education, Entertainment and Training Complex.

Volga Quest won the Grand Prix of the National Russian Event Awards-2013, the National Award for event tourism.

Murmansk dweller Alexander Pyutsep proposed to build a restaurant with planetarium and arctic museum on the high hill near Murmansk. According to Alexander, the restaurant visitors will be able to observe the first sunrise after the polar night in January and the first sunset in the second half of July after the polar day ends.

The jury of the National Award for event tourism appreciated "Ostrov.ru" annual festival, presented by the singer Olga Kormukhina in Zarudnoye tract of Naro-Fominsk district, as the brand of Moscow region and bestowed it the Grand Prix in the "Best Project in the field of culture" category.

The programs of snowmobile tourism in the Urals were presented in the Tourism Development Center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. One of the winter tourism activists suggested the project of a snowmobile trail.

The tourist route “The Golden Ring of Kuzbass” will appear in Kemerovo oblast in 2014, its programme will include visits to cultural and natural attractions of the region.

The residents of the entire Murmansk oblast will be able to travel to Norway without visas.

The Far East tour operators confirmed their plans to resume flights to Manila.

The citizens of Russia were urged not to believe the tour operators and obtain UAE visas beforehand.