The charter programs of the leading Russian tour operators to Tanzanian Zanzibar have been recently supplemented by regular flights of Utair. The carrier plans to fly to the island three times a week. Charters to Zanzibar will be performed by Pegas Turistik from October, 25 with a frequency of once…

On September 30, 2020, Belarusian airline Belavia has performed its first flight from Moscow Domodedovo Airport to Minsk after the resumption of regular flights between Russia and Belarus. The air carrier operates flights weekly on Wednesdays.

On the first flight of Belavia, Russian tourists…

The first direct flight to Zanzibar (Tanzania) will depart from Moscow on October 25. The flights will be operated by NordWind Airline for Pegas Touristik. The second charter chain starts on October 30. As the tour operator says, the volume of sales is high. Connecting flights are booked more badly,…

Tour operator Biblio-Globus decided to resume flights to Tanzania after October 1, the press service of the company said.

Other leading tour operators have no plans to send tourists to Tanzania yet. Anex Tour hopes that the Maldives will become available for guests from Russia (the tour…

On September 1, the authorities of Belarus and Russia agreed to resume mutual air traffic. At the same time, according to the information of the Belarusian Ministry of Transport, air traffic will be restored in stages. The decision was made following the talks in Moscow.

“The Russian side…

Egypt could be another candidate for border opening. Aeroflot opened sales of direct flights to Cairo, and some tour operators have already launched sales of tours to Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh.

However, as the players of the travel market comment, the sales themselves have a "single"…

Kenya allowed Russian citizens to enter its territory without mandatory quarantine. On the evening of August 5, a relevant document appeared on the website of the Nairobi airport containing a list of 126 countries, for whose citizens the mandatory quarantine upon arrival in the country was canceled.…

Already on August 1, tourists will be able to go on vacation to Tanzania. It will be possible to fly there from three cities of Russia - Moscow, St. Petersburg and Rostov-on-Don.

A number of tour operators have already included tours to Tanzania in their booking systems. Tours with a departure…

Before the opening of borders for foreign tourists, the Tunisian government has classified countries according to the level the spread of coronavirus.

Based on this list, the authorities divided the countries into “green”, “orange” and “red” categories. Tourists from the first two lists…

Belarus has already opened their charters program to Egypt. Russia so far “keeps” its borders locked. However, it is possible that on June 19 Russia will announce the date of the opening of the border with Belarus. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will leave for Minsk this week. As the foreign…

Tunisia will be ready to host foreign tourists, including Russian, from the end of June. This date was announced by the Minister of Tourism of Tunisia, Mohamed al-Tumi. At the same time, the Ministry introduced “the Ready and Safe label” for hotels and tourist facilities, which must receive it to…

At the end of 2019, Tanzania lost a noticeable number of Russian tourists: according to the Border Service. The country last year hosted only 6 435 tourists from Russia, against 9 891 people a year earlier. The experts explain the more than 35% decline, first of all, by a decrease in charter transportation…

In 2019, there was a slight increase in the volume of Russian tourist flow on this exotic island destination of the Indian Ocean. Starting 2020, tour operators began to receive special offers from Mauritius hotels with discounts of 20-35%.

According to the statistics office of Mauritius,…

According to the results of 2019, against a year earlier, 9,16% more Russians came to one of the most elite and expensive tourist destinations - Seychelles. However, this is only compensation for the “failure” of 2018: the Seychelles is still far from the pre-crisis indicators of the Russian tourist…

The demand for holidays in Tunisia among organized Russian tourists increased in 2019, and for some travel agencies, the destination accounts up to 20% of total sales, as reported the representatives of travel agencies.

“Tunisia always is sells well, this is an inexpensive destination, even…

Around 632 000 Russian holidaymakers have visited Tunisia in the first eleven months of 2019, a 5% increase in numbers from last year, the Tunisian National Tourism Office has said.

The North African country expects to welcome 3 000 more Russian visitors before the end of December, Tourism…

As the head of the Tunisian national tourism office in Russia, Neji Guider, told, according to the results of 2019, the tourist flow from Russia to Tunisia will be about 635 thousand people, which is 5% more than last year.

"By the end of the year, we are expecting 9 million foreign tourists…

Last summer, Tunisia retained the title of one of the most popular beach destinations among Russian tourists. For several years, the resorts of the Republic have positioned themselves as year-round ones. Moreover, as practice shows, there is a demand for Tunisia in the winter and off-season. This…

In the summer of 2019, Tunisia was included in the list of the leaders among beach destinations which are popular among Russian tourists. Moreover, as the press service of the tour operator Anex Tour told, over the past few years the demand for the destination has tripled. By the way, at the moment,…

Despite the departure from the Tanzanian destination of the charters of two tour operators, the new player, Biblio-Globus has successfully occupied a niche and stimulates the growth of demand at low prices. Its charter flights are loaded well. The New Year holidays are also being sold better than…