April 30 opened a river navigation in Moscow Ye, A new season of river cruises. Last season, the best tour operator s Moscow and St. Petersburg was named "Rechflot, which won the National Tourism Prize Sienkiewicz in this category. About the peculiarities of the new navigation season and river cruises-2010 says CEO "Rechflot Alexander Zemlyansky.
- Alexander E., what's new offer" Rechflot "its tourists in the opening season?
- We leave to the market with a new proposal - double-deck warm-speed economy class "Anna Akhmatova", which was acquired by us in the autumn of last year (before it was called "Monomakh"). For this ship, we set minimum prices, maintaining the legacy of the "Rechflota" quality of food on board and a decent excursion program in the cities. Cabins on "Anna Akhmatova" comfortably middle-particular, but we do not knowingly converted this ship, so as not to raise prices to stay. In my opinion, this market still has to stay and inexpensive, socially-oriented segment.
- New, but still cheap for a tourist boat - this is very interesting. A Does the new routes?
- In the navigation in 2009, we opened a new route on previously inaccessible to shipping of the Rybinsk Reservoir. On the initiative and with the support of Rechflota for the first time in many years in the fairway were exposed buoys, piers restored. Now our ships come in a beautiful town Borok, where the Institute of Biology of Inland Waters RAS with a very interesting museums, make a stop in Breytove - there is a place for tourists show Sith battles with tataromongolami. But personally I think the most important tourist attraction Breytova Alla Igorevna Rysenkovu.
She built the temple in his village, bead and so colorfully tells about himself and the simple rural life that the tourists from it just did not pull! The farthest point of the cruise was Vesegonsk where we show the tourists the Museum of cancer and bring the tour of the winery. Since all the flights on the new route have been a great success, this season we have not only increased the number of such five-day cruises, but also added a call at Vesegonsk, Breytovo Borok and a traditional cruise "Moscow Circumnavigation", passing along the Volga and Oka.
Of course, remain and will enjoy the popularity of our traditional routes: the most demanded cruise Moscow - St. Petersburg, as well as cruises in Astrakhan, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Ufa and Yelabuga.
Very low demand, we organize the weekend: in Uglich, Tver, Myshkin or Kalyazin.

We increased the duration of their time, and now the time Our three-day cruise tourists can visit in more than one, as before, but in the two cities.
- What are the challenges your company faces in the new season?
- The biggest problem we have - it's Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Kanal Moscow, which this year moved piers of the North river terminal in Moscow. Leadership of this company are exactly six times (!) Has raised prices for berthing for river buses and 56 per cent - for the cruise ships. Transportation on the river tram, we are now forced to carry out only on weekends, and even with increased ticket prices for passengers twice on weekdays and at all the same flights canceled - an alternative to river monopolist we just left. Cruise Ships immediately drives off the raid, to stand at the pier river station now - a luxury.
- What do you intend to take in this situation?
- We have already appealed to the Federal Antimonopoly Service and Service Tariff. We hope that they will put a monopolist with its exorbitant levies in place. Instead of somehow helping tourism and shipping companies to take into account our interests (because we are working only three or four months a year!), Director of the Moscow Canal frankly hurts everyone: hauliers and tourists. From a constructive dialogue with us channel management refuses, frankly wringing his hands: either sign an agreement on new prices, or forget about the river station. And yet there were many minor difficulties due to the fact that the new owners of the river station (channel director - a former railway worker) demonstrate a complete misunderstanding of the technology of our work: no water, no electricity to ships now are not fed, cars with food and clothes from the laundry at the berths not allowed, and even plan to carry cash shipping companies on the quays, where we sell tickets to passengers.


course, all this is impeding our work. We all forces will fight this tyranny, defending the interests of our visitors.