Dear friends and fellow adventure riders,

It's been for a while since we talked with many of you last time. Without a doubt this year was an exceptional for all of us – corona changed our plans and usual way of live, but we hope it didn't hurt, neither you, not your friends, relatives or business partners.

We, in Russia, are doing relatively good. After two months of lockdown in April-May since June everything returned back to normal way of life. Hotels, restaurants, shopping malls, resorts and all other business reopened their doors during the summer and most of them operate till nowadays. Borders were closed, but people travelled inside the country.

Today we see so-called "second wave" in Russia, but there are no strict restrictions, mostly recommendations, people travel, restaurants work, shopping malls are open.

This summer we couldn't meet because borders were closed and international travel prohibited. We had to postpone our tours with you into 2021/2022 and instead refocused on local market. Luckily, we were well positioned for that, we offered to Russian riders tours to Altay and Elbrus Mountains, Enduro/Off-Road Riding Trainings, Sochi and Abkhazia, Karelia and Crimea Tours, Weekend Rides and other activities.

Motorcycle travel market in Russia is young and just emerging, people don't know their own country, so many were interested to ride with us. And we used that opportunity.

Last week we closed 2020 riding season. This year we have done 40 tours, approx. 300 customers travelled with us. We were forced to cut costs, sell plenty of bikes, optimize staff, sell some garage stock, execute different other cost cutting measures. But we could continue our operations, saved team of guides, most bikes.

Our revenue fell several times from last year level, but this year is not about high revenue or net profit, we had to survive, return deposits to those who asked for, continue our operations, support employees, and it seems we could do it.

We want to say Thank You to all of you who left deposits with us and agreed to move booking into 2021 or further. We appreciate your trust and support. And we definitely owe you a glass of beer or shot of ice cold vodka with caviar. Next summer we will pay this off.

Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca recently announced their vaccines are almost ready and 90-95% effective. Russian vaccine Sputnik V distribution also began that week in Russia, it is said it has same 90% efficiency rate. Wide vaccination is forecasted to begin at the end of December or early January and we hope that it will be the end of covid.

We understand that vaccination can take more time than expected, we know that situation is very difficult in some countries and probably some of you can be pessimistic on the next season perspectives, but we believe these are last weeks or months of this pandemic and soon situation will improve.

Pharma companies pay a lot of attention to trials testing of new vaccines, they understand level of responsibility, and we think coming vaccine and vaccination will be safe and fast. And that will end corona.

Russia opened its borders with UK, Turkey, Switzerland, Maldives, Tanzania, UAE, Cuba, Japan, Marocco and ~25 more countries from August-September. We wait for the vaccine to appear during winter 2021, so that international travelling can be resumed again.

We think by next summer situation will be much better that now, with Europe, USA, Latin America and most other countries already opening their borders and resuming international travelling.

There is light in the end of the tunnel and if everything goes as expected next summer we will run most of delayed tours from this year. So we wish you to stay healthy and positive in these days and we look forward to see you soon in Russia.

That's it for now, thanks for reading.

We wish you good luck in these times, stay healthy, don't lose faith, everything will normalize soon. We will have great tours next years, can't wait to show you Mother Russia.

In the coming months we will update you re visa, new tours and destinations, will keep you informed re covid situation in Russia. Stay with us, follow our social media (FB, Insta, YouTube), if any questions or concerns don't hesitate to write an e-mail at info@rusmototravel.com.

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