Russian tourists are expected next year on organized vacation in Ohrid, which will be realized by establishing direct air charter flight from Moscow to Ohrid Airport.
These are the conclusions from the today meeting of representatives of the Department for Economic Development of the Municipality of Ohrid and the General Manager of the Moscow travel agency “7tur” who is visiting Ohrid.
The Head of the Department for Economic Development, Gjoko Apostoloski said that to it was brought to the attention of Russian delegation all positive features of Ohrid tourism from the aspect and responsibility of local government.
- It would be positive step if Macedonia would ever be an option on all tourism fairs, as it was pointed out to us that the country and thus Ohrid are hardly known to the Russians. We will try through this collaboration to provide a presentation of the city as a tourist destination. As local government, we already have concrete steps. Here is the preparation of tourist propaganda material that will be prepared in Russian language. We are preparing for the participation of Europe’s largest tourism fair in Moscow, said Apostoloski after the meeting.
At the same time at the today’s meeting was considered the promotion of Ohrid as a destination in the most famous Russian tourist brochure “Polyglot” which is printed in millions of copies. In this regard, it was announced that from 11th to 14th of November, in Ohrid will arrive a group of 20 travel workers from Russian Federation, including a representative of the indicated brochure “Polyglot”.
