Moscow Domodedovo Airport Held the вЂTravel Routes: Spring-Summer 2013’ Forum
Moscow Domodedovo Airport held the вЂTravel Routes: Spring-Summer 2013’ Forum which has already become traditional. More than one hundred companies – travel agencies, Russian and foreign air carriers took part in the event.
Opening the Forum Vladimir Kamynin, Marketing Director of Moscow Domodedovo Airport, gave a speech on the main trends and news of the travel segment of aviation industry: on popular and promising flight destinations, quantity indicators of air transport services and on the key factors influencing such indicators.
“The market of tourist air services expands at a fast pace — the Russians actively choose traditional routes and open new destinations,” said Vladimir Kamynin. “Moscow Domodedovo Airport, having closely studied the market trends, offers convenient innovation services and opens new in-demand routes.”
The specific feature of вЂTravel Routes. Spring-Summer 2013’ Forum was an increase in quantity of foreign representatives, and the intensity of bilateral meetings of Russian and foreign experts this time was considerably higher than during the previous events.
The Travel Forum initiated by Moscow Domodedovo Airport is held biannually – on the threshold of summer and winter tourist seasons (during the second half of May and at the end of November). In 10 years it has proved to be an effective international business platform for negotiations, establishment and development of contacts among tourist market professionals of Russia, near/far-abroad countries.
Moscow Domodedovo Airport is the largest airport of Russia in terms of passenger traffic. In 2011, total passenger traffic of the airport amounted to 25,7 million people which let Domodedovo become the first Russian airport to join the category of the largest airports in Europe on the classification of the Airports Council International (ACI). Domodedovo is the base airport in Russia for member airlines of two largest global airline alliances – oneworld and Star Alliance. According to the annual survey by the independent research company Skytrax Research (UK), Moscow Domodedovo Airport tops the list of the best airports in Eastern Europe in terms of the service quality.