The St. Petersburg travel agency "Agentstvo 1001" announced the suspension of its operations and filed a claim to the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg to declare it bankrupt. The company "Agentstvo 1001" operated in the St. Petersburg travel services market as part of the franchise of the well-known Moscow network "1001 Tour".
According to preliminary information, the closure of the St. Petersburg travel agency "Agency 1001" will deprive about 70 tourists of their paid vacation. The total financial damageThe amount they received is estimated at around 2 million rubles.
As Kirill Nikolaev, head of the sales department of Agency 1001, told the Fontanka web portal, the travel agency was crippled by financial problems caused by a catastrophic drop in demand and the devaluation of the ruble. According to Nikolaev, in November 2014 alone, the agency received loss in the amount of 1 million 300 thousand rubles due to the increase in the price of foreign tours from the franchiser by 20-40%.
