“The Voronezh region needs to promote its own brand both on Russian and foreign exchanges. The attractiveness of the region is one of the priorities in the development of domestic tourism. For many years harped on the need to promote the region. The owners of our airport decided to do it.”
For those unfamiliar with the region, Voronezh is the vital administrative center of Voronezh Oblast, Russia, which connects European Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine. The region became a settlement of the Kievan Rus in about the 12th century, and grew to be Russia’s 15th largest city today.
According to Vasiliev, the emergence of a private tour operator will contribute to the growth of passenger traffic of the airport. Currently, the airport is developing mechanisms for the involvement of local touristic community in the development of Voronezh and the Voronezh region as an attractive tourist region. Currently the company is actively in talks with potential new airline partners.
International airport “Voronezh” provides flights of airlines S7 Airlines, Red Wings airlines, Ellinair, “UTair”, “Rusline” and “AK bars Aero”, “Saratov airlines”, “Flight” Aeroflot, NordWind, Uzbekistan Airways, “yuvt Aero. From the airport operates flights to 18 domestic and international destinations.