The project of Ural Airlines’ new office building won in Golden Capital, the country-wide architects and designers contest. Yekaterinburg-based In.Form, already known for its public buildings projects, won the gold prize with its project for Ural Airlines in the Public Interiors category. The All-Russian festival was attended by 108 companies from nine Russian cities: Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, and others. The event coordinators reports projects of greatest quality were featured there, the best ones throughout the festival’s fifteen years of existence. Virtually all the projects

The tour operators won’t find an increase in the amount of financial guarantees required by the state a big blow on their finances. However, some smaller tour operators will have to become simple travel agents,’ the Director of Mouzenidis Тravel Yekaterinburg representation Olga Ganiyeva told UrBC. The prospective changes in the tourist legislation will make it obligatory for tour operators whose annual turnover falls short of 500m RUR to ensure financial guarantees of 100m; companies whose turnover comes to more than 500m RUR a year and over 1bn RUR a year will have to provide 200m RUR and

I think the new development on the increased financial guarantees for tour operators is only half the battle. Sadly, tourism is a kind of business where there are a lot of illegitimate tour operators. No one can forbid a travel agent to book a ticket and a hotel room on their own. There are no regulations on this market,’ Director of Natalie Tours Yekaterinburg representation Oleg Khiger told UrBC. Now the prospective changes in the tourist legislation will make it obligatory for tour operators whose annual turnover falls short of 500m RUR to ensure financial guarantees of 100m; companies

New Tajikistan’s Consul-General in Yekaterinburg Parviz Asoyev assumed office recently. Parviz Asoyev used to be deputy head of Tajikistan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Consulate Department prior to his new appointment. Mr. Asoyev’s predecessor Farrukh Sharipov was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Tajikistan to Turkey.

I don’t think any financial guarantees can save a tour operator on the brink of bankruptcy. For one, these guarantees did not help much in the case of Capital Tour and its customers. As a result, people were forced to pay for the hotel rooms themselves, they found themselves hostages of the problem. The thing is, Capital Tour still owes money to hotels and airlines. This is why I really do not see how a financial guarantee can save either the tour operator or the client,’ Director of OOO Inna Tour Inna Averyanova told UrBC. Meanwhile, the prospective changes in the tourist legislation will