Mumbai: Visit St. Petersburg India has announced the opening of its office in Mumbai. The new office was inaugurated by Elena Fedorova, Deputy Chair of Committee for Industrial Policy and Innovation, Government of St. Petersburg, who was in Mumbai recently attending ‘Days of St. Petersburg in Mumbai’ celebrated from December 9-12 to mark the 50th anniversary of St. Petersburg and Mumbai’s sister-city status that was established in 1967. Visit St. Petersburg Mumbai office is located at the Russian Centre of Science & Culture at Pedder Road in Mumbai.
The new office was inaugurated in the presence of Andrey N. Zhiltsov, Consul General of Russian Consulate in Mumbai; Evegeny Pankevich, Head of St. Petersburg City Information Bureau; Ashutosh Rathore, Joint Managing Director, Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation; Sameer Karnani, Chairman – TAAI Western Region and Prashant Chaudhary, MD & CEO of Salvia Promoters Pvt. Ltd.
Speaking on the latest development, Fedorova said, “Russia and India have shared close relationship over the last 70 years. St. Petersburg and Mumbai’s sister-city status is a testimony to that as the two cities celebrates sister-city golden jubilee year during the “Days of St. Petersburg in Mumbai” from December 09-12. And now it is also high time that we take our trade, culture and tourism relation to notches higher as there is huge scope and opportunity to do that.”
Speaking on the opening of Visit St. Petersburg Mumbai office, Prashant Chaudhary, Managing Director of Salvia Promoters, Visit St. Petersburg India representative office, said, “The new Mumbai office not only gives us a strategic access to the most important source market region in India but will also help us gather industry inputs and feedback and work closely with trade in Western and Southern India.”
Visit St. Petersburg announced the opening of its India office earlier this year in Delhi appointing Delhi based Salvia Promoters, a destination marketing company. The opening of office in Mumbai further underlines St. Petersburg’s keen interest in developing one of the key source market regions in India and a growing interest in developing the burgeoning Indian outbound travel market to explore St Petersburg’s myriad colours.
