Tour operators, some of whom are among the nation’s oldest, say they have experienced an unprecedented slump in demand, which they blame on the bad political climate and the depreciation of the ruble, which has lost up to 10 percent against the dollar since January.
The move, which authorities justified as an attempt to keep government employees out of any country that has an extradition agreement with the U.S., has discouraged trips abroad among the several million people who work in those sectors.
[…] the recent troubles in Russia’s budget tourism industry, the direct casualties of Western sanctions had been few and …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
