Russia: St. Petersburg Gets “Angel Service” to Help Tourists

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | June 27th, 2006 | Trackback

St. Petersburg has a new service to help tourists make their way safely around the city. The “Angels Service” employees provide advice on how to use the city transit system, make emergency phone calls, find safe banking services, learn the best way to a destination, and shop. The uniformed personnel work in pairs downtown and at tourist sites. The government established the service with hopes to promote St. Petersburg as a hospitable European city, perhaps to balance the frequent news of it being a center of hate crimes against non-white foreigners.

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