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The Islands of French Polynesia have adopted a new ecotourism development plan, making travel more difficult.
One can only sympathize with the "luck" of Egyptian resorts. But it is even more a pity for tourists who wanted to bask in the warm sun "somewhere nearby", but found themselves victims of the ban of Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Jordan on the flight of planes with Russian insurance. Now the flight from Moscow to Sharm el-Sheikh will take 11 hours.
After the resumption of direct flights to Thailand in October, Russian tourists flooded into the Kingdom of Southeast Asia. If in September, the number of tourists set post-COVID records at 15,900 people per month, by October it had more than doubled to over 44,000.
Russia Airlines, which is part of the Aeroflot Group, will impose penalties on passengers who decide to disembark after the doors are closed without respectable reasons.
As part of the Moscow Seasons, 22 free ice rinks presumably will be opened starting from December 1, 2024. Opening hours are from 11:00 - 22:00 on weekdays and from 10:00 - 22:00 on weekends.
For over a year now, prices of all goods in the country have been growing at a rapid rate. Currency devaluation has led to an increase in the cost of electricity, which automatically pushed up the cost of production of food, goods and rent. Many products have risen by more than 25% in a year.
The tourist lanes and Galata Tower in Istanbul
From January 1, 2023, Turkey introduces a tourist tax. Now, unless you plan to spend the night in a tent, get ready to fork out for an additional 2% of the cost of accommodation and any services provided by the hotel, hostel, guest house, apartment hotel and even a catering.
This week in the Indonesian parliament, new laws were passed prohibiting cohabitation and sex outside of marriage. The laws will be applied not only to residents, but also to foreign tourists and expatriates residing in the country.
North Macedonia was added to the list of “hostile countries”, to which it responded by rejecting the extension of the visa-free regime that had existed since 2013. And that's it.
