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At Vesti FM radio, Dmitry Gorin summed up the results of 2019: “This year passed steadily. And what is really positive, we noted the growth of both domestic and inbound/outbound tourism. It’s normal healthy competition. There were no such strong price leaps, we, the tour operators, restrained this resource as much as we could. Of course, the main advantage was that package tours around Russia had appeared, there have been much more of them. ” (Read more)

RIA Novosti Dmitry Gorin has commented on the situation with Iran. According to him, the cost of travel packages due to the increase in flight duration caused by the need to fly beyond the airspace of Iran, Iraq, the Persian and Oman gulfs can be adjusted not earlier than in a month. “The increase in flight duration now ranges from 15 minutes to 2 hours, depending on the direction, as flight programs are carried out from many cities of Russia,” he said. Dmitry Gorin assured that the travel industry will follow the recommendations of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Rostourism, and drew attention to the fact that so far the agency has recommended that tourists monitor the possible change in departure times to the Middle East region countries. (Read more)

No more than 30 organized tourists from Russia are currently in Iran, trip refusals to the country and tour cancellations are not recorded, Dmitry Gorin told RNS. “As estimated by the Association of Tour Operators of Russia, there are currently no more than 20-30 organized tourists in Iran. There were no questions from them ... There are no tour cancellations, ”Gorin said. He emphasized that Iran was a destination demanded, first of all, among independent tourists. According to the vice president of ATOR, the aggravation of geopolitical tensions will not affect the tourist flow to the country. (Read more)

“Vipservice has already signed an agreement with NTT on testing electronic tickets, and we are ready to start work and discuss possible modernization and integration.

We are impressed by the position of the deputies, the Federal Tourism Agency, and the NTT itself. Everyone understands that there should be no storming. The system needs to be tested in a reasonable amount of time, and its audit should end. And at the Legal Travel Day conference, which took place in mid-December in Moscow, the head of the Federal Tourism Agency Zarina Doguzova and the NTT deputy general director Konstantin Yakushev announced that only after the testing period had been completed would it be possible to talk about the timing of implementation and industrial operation. And only then it will be possible to raise the timing question of the beginning of responsibility for operators who work outside the information system.

One way or another, e-tickets cannot be considered as a single element. It should be interconnected with the federal registry of travel agencies, and it would be much easier if these mechanisms were launched simultaneously.

As for the refinement of the e-tickets, it is obvious that “boxed” solutions are needed for small tour operators who do not have their own powerful IT base. We also hope that it be introduced in stages: first, outbound tourism, and only after that internal tourism. ” (Read more)

Advisor of the Head of Rosturism talked about other important 20202 subjects at the Profi.travel: travel agency register and TourAid activity. (Read more)


13.01.2020