Intourist
Key facts
- Company.name
- Intourist
- Company.image
- Intourist_bus.jpg
- Company.image_size
- 250px
- Company.image_caption
- Intourist bus LAZ-699 in Armenia, 2011
- Company.native_name
- Интурист
- Company.type
- Open joint-stock company
- Company.industry
- Tourism and hospitality
- Company.hq_location
- Moscow, Russia
- Company.area_served
- Soviet Union, then Russia
- Company.parent
- Neşet Koçkar (50.1%)Sistema (49.9%)
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Intourist - the official website of the tour operator for inbound and tourism, on-line booking of tours
intourist.com →~6 min read
Article
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Stalin era
- Post-Stalin era
- After privatisation
- Competition
- Afterlife
- Publications
- See also
- References
- External links
280px|thumb|Intourist buses at the Palace Square, [[Leningrad, 1980]]
Intourist (, a contraction of , "foreign tourist" also Goskomturist ()) was a Soviet then Russian tour operator, headquartered in Moscow. It was founded on April 12, 1929, and served as the primary travel agency for foreign tourists in the Soviet Union. The former GRU military spy Viktor Suvorov stated that Intourist was run by the KGB. It was privatized in 1992 and, from 2011, was 50.1% owned by the British Thomas Cook Group until its collapse in September 2019. In November 2019, Anex Tours acquired the stake from the British Official Receiver.