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Moscow Room Rates Increase as Demand Grows Stronger

2012-01-24 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Tourism in Moscow is set to get a much-needed boost this year with the completion of eight new luxury hotel projects, boosting the number of quality hotel rooms in the Russian capital by 6% – to a total of 32,500 – according to a top consulting company.

Tags: Four Seasons Moscow, highest hotel room rates, hotel.info, Jones Lang LaSalle, Kempinksky Hotel Nikolskaya, Moscow hotel prices, moscow hotel room rates, Moscow hotel rooms, Moscow hotels, Moscow room rates, Sergei Shpilko

Moscow To Get Dial-A-Guide Telephone Service

2011-06-03 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Moscow tourist phone service will be available in multiple languages

Plans by Russian authorities to make Moscow a more “tourist-friendly” place could be given a lift with the announcement of a new multi-lingual Dial-a-Guide telephone service that has been proposed. The new plan calls for specialist tourist information call centers to be set up during the summer, ready to field calls from foreign visitors looking […]

Tags: Dial-a-Guide, IFK Hotel Management, Moscow holiday, Moscow tourism committee, Polina Frolova, russian authorities, russian capotal, Sergei Shpilko, tourist information, tourist phone service

Russian Federation Tourism Initiative Moves Forward

2010-11-19 by Phil Butler

The Ufa River of Russia - places you never saw - courtesy Sergei Ezhov

The Russian Federation’s travel and tourism initiative goes forward with a Moscow convention directed at the problems of medical tourism in Russia. The Russian Tourist Industry Union reaches out to the industry to help solve Russia’s principle issues where the disabled are concerned. Just as Prime Minister Putin embraces his gifted Bulgarian sheepdog, Russia seems to want to embrace the world now.

Tags: Bulgaria, disabled tourism, disabled travel, disabled travlers, medical tourism, Russia infrastructure, Russia news, Russia toursim, Russian Ministry of Health, Russian rail travel, Russian tourism news, Russian travel, Sergei Shpilko, Vladimir Putin

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