Belintourist

From white Russia with love ; I'm standing in exactly the centre of Europe - and a giant of a man wearing a beret, a scowl and what I can only assume is a gun bulging beneath his fawn leather jacket is telling me to "go away".
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK); 10/11/2008; 1602 words; ...countries and tourist information can be thin on the ground. In fact, Minsk's only tourist information office, run by Belintourist (19 Prospekt Masherova), closes for lunch - and at weekends. Belarus is preparing to welcome about 3,000 English men...

Interfax Belarus News Daily.
Belarus News; 7/25/2005; 1659 words; ...from safety considerations." "Belarus has a favourable climate and total security," he stressed. Interfax learnt from Belintourist Director General Maria Filipovich, "this summer the Crimea Peninsula is growing even more popular." Among other popular...

Travel Drinking: Eastern Europe - Drunk from the legs up Its tourist industry may be stuck in a timewarp, but there are unexpec ted pleasures to be found in Minsk, not least in its cocktails. By Mark Rowe
The Independent - London; 5/1/1999; 1039 words; ...The tourist industry, still dominated by the state-run Belintourist, is also trapped in a timewarp. Irritant travellers are...to book a ticket home. The horny- handed ice maiden at Belintourist's office - which sported posters advertising hunting holidays...