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Tourism Boost

by BTM

Sun, 02 June 2019

Tourism Boost

Bahrain Tourism and Exhibition Authority (BTEA) has succeeded in attracting more than 10,000 Russian tourists through the charter programme operated by Coral Travel. As part of BTEA’s efforts to draw tourists from new markets to the Kingdom, the travel company launched its first charter flight from Moscow to Bahrain in October 2018, with an average of two weekly flights. HE Shaikh Khaled bin Humood Al Khalifa, CEO of BTEA, said: “Through the cooperation efforts between Coral Travel and BTEA, the total number of Russian tourists has reached to 10,075 over the past six months alone. The tourists’ occupancy rate is currently at nine nights, with the total expenditure of tourists arriving within the programme itself amounting to BD7,217,730.”

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