| We are Informbank Agency
Our company is comparatively young; it has been 13 years at the market. But it is a clear epoch in Russian measures; it is in 1989 when large-scale market reforms started in this country that the company came into being.
For more than 10 years Informbank Agency has been publishing one of the most popular economic editions in Russia - the "Banking" magazine and a weekly bulletin of legislative acts of Russia.
Since 1997 the Agency is a stirring player in the Russian tourist industry media market. It is publishing the "Tourism: Practice, Problems, Prospects" magazine and the "Russian Tourist Gazeta" newspaper.
In 1998 - 2000 the magazine thrice won the "Crystal Boat" prize in nominations "The best professional tourist edition", "The best edition on tourism" and "The best hotel-tourist edition". In 2000 the magazine was also recognized the best professional tourist edition and won the "Crystal Globe" prize.
2000 was also a year when the "Russian tourist resources" catalogue in English to be distributed at the world tourist exhibitions was launched. Now, editions in Chinese, Spanish, Italian, and German have been added to the English one. In 2000 the catalogue won the "Crystal Boat" as the best information project of the year.
Electronic bulletin "Russian tourist news" in English has been distributed weekly through 4,800 e-addresses to foreign travel agencies and companies since 2000.
In 1999 four leading professional editions of Informbank Agency, namely the "Tourism: Practice, Problems, Prospects" magazine, "Russian Tourist Gazeta" newspaper, "Russian tourist resources" catalogue, and "Russian tourist news" electronic bulletin established an international prize of their own - "Tourism Industry Leaders".
By the results of the last year 21 companies became winners in Silver category. This year the prize will be awarded in 17 nominations of two categories, Silver and Golden. The winner will get memorial badges - stylized silver and golden crowns decorated with real precious stones.
Practically, from the moment of its foundation Informbank Agency is dynamically working in the tourism field, particularly in intensive tourism sphere. At present, the company focuses on exclusive inbound tourism programs. A number of operator programs capable to satisfy the most demanding requests are in the Informbank Agency's portfolio. First of all these are tours to the North and South Poles of the Earth which the company arranges being a member the Association of Polar Explorers of Russia and "Polus", the Centre for Promulgation and Development of Arctic and Antarctic. The tour to Baikonur launch site by the days of manned spacecraft launchings was developed jointly with the Yu. Gagarin Russian State Research and Cosmonaut Training Centre. The Agency is a tourist-aspect partner of the International Aviation Show (MAKS), which for its 12-year existence showed itself as one of the biggest specialized exhibitions in the world.
Generally speaking, the partnership with organizations leading in their fields is a distinctive streak of our activity in tourism. Another example: "Learn Russian in Russia" program we devised and realize jointly with the Moscow Humane-and-Social Academy where the best teachers of Russian as a foreign language have been gathered.
Informbank Agency's tours to Russia mean providing exclusiveness, reliability, and professionalism!
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