“In the coming months the demand for organized outgoing tourism will not grow due to the weakening of the ruble and high prices for tours,” says the CEO of Inturist, Viktor Tolpokaraev. “We should not expect an increase in demand for trips of organized tourists from Russia abroad due to the weakening…
Tour operators can offer interesting and sometimes unexpected winter destinations: for example, Gambia, where Coral Travel tour operator will continue to fly, or Zanzibar in Tanzania, where two tour operators fly this year. Now there are competitors and for the UAE - this winter tour operators launched…
“Nowadays the experts are noting a robust growth in demand by about 10% for winter holidays in all destinations,” the executive director of ATOR, Maya Lomidze said. Data from ATOR Analytical Service allows us to talk about the increased demand for winter destinations. Totally, the growth in demand for…
The analysis of three quarters of the Russian tourist traffic to 4 exotic island destinations of the Indian Ocean - Maldives, Seychelles, Sri Lanka and Mauritius were announced. Some of them showed a drop in tourist flow from the Russian Federation, others - growth.
In the preferences of travelers departing from Moscow from December 28 to January 3, domestic destinations are on leading positions. The most popular among them are the resorts of Sochi (Imeretinsky and Krasnaya Polyana). At the same time, the average cost of a tour in Russia is 22.5 thousand Rubles…
Most Russians who prefer to stay in hotels rather than apartments choose this type of accommodation because they do not want to cook on vacation. This opinion is shared by 73% of respondents, according to the study conducted by the hotel reservation service Ostrovok.ru. More than 800 tourists took part…
Turkey became the undisputed leader of summer season 2018 – over the first 8 months of this year almost 4.2 million Russians have rested there. According to preliminary forecasts of tour operators, by the end of 2018 the number of Russian tourists in Turkey will grow by 15% compared with last year -…
“The depth of sales of tours abroad has decreased due to the uncertainty of the financial and economic situation. The final decision to travel the Russians take an average three weeks before the trip”, told the executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) Maya Lomidze. She…
Based on the structure of sales of tour operators, in general, the market has noted an increase in demand for tours, including the period of three-day “long” November weekend. However, this growth has its own characteristics, and the picture of demand on the domestic and abroad destinations is different.…
The data concerning volume and dynamics of passenger traffic by scheduled and charter flights were announced during the conference Online Travel 3.0. The experts also gave a forecast of the Russian passenger traffic based on the results of 2018. At Online Travel 3.0 conference the analysis of civil aviation…
Contrary to gloomy forecasts, in August-September the number of charter flights remained almost at the summer level. The general director of Vipservice Holding, Dmitry Gorin, said that over the reporting period, from August 15 to September 15, Russian airlines performed 3,781 charter flights in the interest…
More than 230 readers participated in HotLine travel’s interrogation concerned the question “what countries do tourists choose instead of Egypt?” 14 % believe that most of the tourist flow has moved to Turkey, 9% believe that an alternative for the Red Sea resorts are Thailand, the UAE and Dominican…
19.9% of Moscow travel agencies, that took part in the traditional marketing research of BANKO Service, noted that their sales of tours fell insignificantly over last summer season. Another 14.4% showed a significant negative dynamics. The questionnaire was conducted in late August - early September.…
Last summer, the number of Russians who spent holidays abroad decreased. This conclusion follows from the results of an enquiry published by All-Russian Center for Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) on September 26. According to VTsIOM, the enquiry was conducted among 1,600 respondents living in 80 regions…
This was announced during the press-breakfast in Moscow by the Director General of Intourist tour operator Viktor Topolkaraev. According to analysts of the company, in 2018 on the background of such stagnation, organized internal tourism will increase up to 7%.
According to the forecast analysis…
The Analytical Center under the Russian government found out who is coming in the country for tourist purposes, where foreigners accommodate and how much they spend. The results of the “Evaluation of the impact of incoming tourism on the economy of Russia” were published on the organization’s official…
Summer beach season on most short-range destinations is almost complete, tour operators in October begin to fly on medium- and long-range winter beach destinations. Due to a longer and more expensive flight the Russian tourists choose there longer rest than in summer, the average duration of tours is…
"Specialists of Biblio-Globus tour operator have determined the directions, where you can go on holiday this autumn with the maximum benefit. Prices for tours traditionally decrease at this time, so savings on traveling to some countries can be up to 20-30%. Among the destinations with the best price-quality…
Sochi, Tbilisi and Prague are the leading destinations, where Russians will go for the November holidays. The TOP-5 also includes Dubai and Bangkok. This information was reported by air ticket agencies. We may add that this year, on the occasion of the Day of National Unity, the Russians are waiting…
Among all kinds of holiday the Russians choose rest at house in the country, on the second place are hiking, fishing and hunting. The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VCIOM) presents data: where the Russians spent summer, how much money they spent during a trip and whether they are…
