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November 09, 2009 16:40 PM

Russia To Be Represented Broadly At World Travel Market In London

LONDON, Nov 9 (Bernama) -- The joint delegation from Moscow, St. Petersburg and several Russian regions will represent the Russian tourist industry at the international tourist forum World Travel Market 2009 that will open in the British capital from Monday, Russian news agency, Itar-Tass, reported.

The 30th annual tourist forum will be held at one of the biggest present-day exhibition centres of the British capital ExCel from November 9 to 12.

Moscow and regional tourist businesses will be represented at the joint stand of the Moscow Committee for Tourism with an area of 258 square metres. Tens of tourist companies, hotels and museums, including Intourist, Mosturflot, Krugozor, Russian Tourist Resources, Metropol, National, Zolotoy Kolos, the Moscow state open-air museum Kolomenskoe and others, participate in the forum.

The tourism potential of Russian regions at the stand are presented by the All-Russia tourist coordination council Regions of Russia - Moscow Agreement, the Kaliningrad and Vladimir Regions, the Republic of Tatarstan and St. Petersburg.

Taking into account long-term mutually advantageous cooperation with the Moscow Committee for Tourism and participation of the Russian capital as an official partner in the preparation and holding of the exhibition-fair here in 2005, the London organising committee of the current forum provided the best place in the central part of the pavilion for the joint stand.

During one of the world's biggest tourist forums, the presentation of the 10th Moscow international tourist fair Tourism and Recreation and the Tourist Information Centre of Moscow will be held at the Moscow stand.

The permanent participation of the Russian capital and regions in the London forum is caused by "a growing interest of British tourists and tour operators in the history and culture of Moscow and Russia," chairman of the Moscow Committee for Tourism Grigory Antyufeyev said on the eve of the travel trade show.

The inflow of British tourists grows every year and the number of British tourists occupies a stable place among the top five foreign countries for the last seven years.

The construction of new hotels is one of the factors for a growing number of tourists, experts believe. The commissioning of new hotels makes them more competitive and makes Moscow hoteliers cut the price for hotel rooms. In the first half of the year six hotels for 1,450 visitors were commissioned in Moscow.

Nine hotels for 2,000 visitors are to be commissioned in the Central Administrative District of the Russian capital by the yearend. Twenty hotels will be opened in Moscow in 2009. Currently, 253 hotels for more than 80,000 guests operate in Moscow.

-- BERNAMA

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