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Moscow takes a small step into the bike-share business
TransportLast week, Moscow installed, throughout its center, thirty stations containing a total of two hundred and twenty red city bikes….the system resembles the Citi Bike program launched this week in New York. The same basic rules and conditions, as well as general urban-planning principles, are at work, too; Moscow’s D.O.T. worked with its counterparts in [...]
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Moscow leads the world in hotel room service charges
DestinationsHotel extras, such as food, drinks and dry cleaning, cost more in Moscow than in any other major city, new research has shown. The survey, carried out by the website TripAdvisor, compared the total cost of several items – a club sandwich, peanuts, water and a cocktail ordered on room service, and the dry cleaning [...]
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EasyJet coming of age as it challenges British Airways with inaugural Moscow flight
TransportEasyJet Plc’s inaugural flight to Moscow today will see the U.K. discount carrier go head-to-head with British Airways as it targets a bigger share of Europe’s lucrative business-travel market. EasyJet will serve Moscow twice-daily from London Gatwick and four times a week from Manchester after winning route rights by guaranteeing a 125-pound ($186) round-trip fare [...]
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Budget pod hotels come to Moscow to combat sky-high room rates
TransportA short walk from Belorusskaya railway station, a 35-minute train ride from the airport, Moscow’s first Japanese-style capsule hotel offers travellers a night’s accommodation in the city center for as little as $85. Leonardo Terigli, a businessman from Florence who sells gourmet food products to Italian restaurants in the Russian capital, flew to Moscow for [...]
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Business travelers find world’s most expensive hotels in Moscow, Lagos, and New York City
DestinationsThe list of cities with the most expensive hotel rooms in 2012 is led by Moscow, Lagos, and New York City. Moscow takes the title for the world’s most expensive hotel rooms for the ninth year in a row after a 4 percent increase last year. Room rates around the world increased an average of [...]
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Fight for your routes: Easyjet promises $200 London-Moscow fares for three years, if given chance
TransportEasyJet Plc CEO Carolyn McCall said the carrier should be awarded rights to fly to Moscow because it would undercut prices offered by Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., which also wants to operate the route. Europe’s second-biggest discount airline would guarantee a lead-in fare of 125 pounds ($202) for three years on the route, which it [...]
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Dubai tourism board expects 20 percent jump in Russian tourists this year
DestinationsAs curtains are down on the Moscow Autumn Travel Industry Week (MATIW) or “Leisure 2012″, the 74 participants of Dubai Pavilion there are expecting a 20% rise in the number of Russian tourists to Dubai by the end of the year as compared to 2011. Fadi Boustany, Editor-in-Chief of Aviamost magazine, attributed the rise to [...]
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Moscow’s hotels are ranked the most expensive in the world for 8th year in a row
RoomsIn a survey of average room rates in 50 major cities, the perennially pricey Russian capital came out on top, with a one-night hotel stay typically costing travellers slightly less than £260. Moscow has topped the annual study, carried out by the Hogg Robinson Group (HRG), a travel management company, for eight years running. This [...]
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EasyJet is getting ready to take on British Airways and Virgin Atlantic for Moscow route
TransportEasyJet is going into battle for the first time with both British Airways and Virgin Atlantic as the three airlines jostle for the right to operate lucrative flights between London and Moscow. In a growing sign that low cost carriers are invading the turf of long haul airlines, easyJet has applied for the rights to [...]
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Moscow tries to deal with traffic congestion by encouraging bike and foot traffic
TransportThe Russian capital is a city of many layers. But on street level, it is all about the traffic jams. To unluck the eternal congestion — and resulting pollution – Mayor Sergei Sobyanin is set to unveil a plan to close selected streets to motor vehicle traffic, creating areas and whole routes reserved for pedestrians and bicycles. [...]
