Foreign tourists enjoy MIG flights
Lots of extreme-lovers go overseas topractice diving, rafting or surfing. But you can get a big dose of adrenaline
in central
The General Director of the company “The
Country of Tourism” Mr. Sergey Skuratov told us that they can send between
three and five tourists to fly in the MIG-29 jet monthly. Moreover, this flight
could become more popular among both Russian and foreign tourists; recently the
guests attracted from overseas have become the biggest fans of this
recreational activity. ”The peak of high interest usually falls in the warm
time of the year, however the winter months are also in demand. For example, we
are preparing a special program for the tourists from
All the flights take place in Nizhniy
Novgorod at the aircraft factory “Sokol”. The tourist package includes a medical
check-up, instructional advice with the pilot and a 40-45 minute flight that
does not depend on the intensity. The most popular packages are the flights to
the stratosphere to the height of 19 and
According to the World Tourism Association’s
rating, the stratosphere flights on the MIG-29 has entered into the top ten
most popular and exciting world adventures. However in general the share of
extreme tourism on the market is not very large. As Mrs. Svetlana Shvab, the
Director of the Adjusting Department of the “
As the “European tourist insurance”
company’s General Directors’ Deputy Mrs. Yulia Alcheeva said, the number of
these rare extreme kinds of tourism is growing, especially thanks to the FITs.
The most popular extreme recreation remains alpine skiing. Some countries have
even made it a mandatory requirement to have a special kind of insurance for
skiers during the winter period. Mrs. Alcheeva also noted that in