“The total amount of loan debt of VIM-Avia is about 7 billion Rubles. The airline has six creditor banks, the leading creditor bank is Zenit Bank”, - said the Head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Alexander Neradko on Wednesday. According to A. Neradko, the owner of VIM-Avia applied to Rosaviatsiya…
“Alexander Burdin has been appointed on the position of the new General Director of VIM-Avia”, - informs the press service of the air carrier. "In order to resolve the crisis situation in VIM-Avia airline, Alexander Burdin, who has a considerable experience in the crisis management, has been appointed…
Despite the Ministry of Transport statement that "VIM-Avia" will return tourists from the resorts "itself or by attracted sources", the uncertainty remains on the tourist market - how, in what terms and by whose funds it will be done. At 12:30 on Tuesday, September 26 it was known only that there are…
“Until the end of the current week an unscheduled inspection will be held in “Vim-Avia” Company and at that time the state bodies seek funds to send back passengers”, - the press service of association “Tourist assistance” reported on Tuesday, September 26. At the moment it is known that the Prosecutor…
“The owner of "VIM-Avia" has neither operating assets nor borrowed funds to continue the work by itself”, - stated Rosaviatsiya after the meeting on the operational activities of the carrier. “The airline has decided to completely stop the charter flights of passengers to the places of rest and back”,…
VIM-Avia air company (based in Domodedovo airport in Moscow) again has delays in the scheduled flights.The carrier canceled or delayed more than a dozen flights for an indefinite period, according to the report of the Investigative Committee of Russia of Saturday, September 23. In the coming days, the…
“Turkey, Greece and Cyprus became the leaders of demand among Russians in the summer period of 2017”, - said the Chairman of the expert council of the United Network of TBG and "Hot tours" Tatiana Dmitrova. According to her, Turkey in the summer of 2017 took 26.4% of all sales of travel agencies. On…
According to the tour operator community, the demand for tours to Abkhazia for the autumn season remains low.
According to the evaluation of the participants of the market, demand fell this year and fell very significantly. In different companies the decrease of the number of bookings for September-October…
“The number of abroad trips of Russian citizens for the purpose of tourism grew by 56% in the first half of 2017 against the same period of the last year. The most popular destinations were Turkey, Thailand and China”, - reported the Press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RCT) Irina…
“The number of trips made by Russian citizens abroad from January to June 2017 increased by 30% - up to 17.1 million”, - reported the Press-secretary of the Russian Tourist Industry Union (RCT) Irina Turina with reference to Rosstat data.
The list of TOP 5 of the most popular destinations for Russians…
The share of foreign travel among all trips of Russians in the summer of 2017 increased by 32%, according to the analysis of tickets search resource Aviasales. "In the summer of 2016 the share of air travel in Russia amounted 80% of the total number of bookings, this year the ratio of domestic and international…
The resource "Vestnik ATOR" interviewed tour operators and online aggregators of package tours and made a rating of the most popular tourist destinations for the autumn season - the period from the beginning of September to the end of October.
The rating of the most popular directions of the autumn…
“For seven months of 2017 Russian airlines increased volume of transportation by 20%, on international lines by 37%”, - said Svetlana Petrova, Director of the Department of Civil Aviation of the Ministry of Transport. "Over the seven months of this year Russian airlines transported 20% passengers more…
“Sales of ski tours for the upcoming winter season are more active by 40-50% in comparison with the last year's figures”, - reported the electronic newspaper of the Russian Tourist Industry Union (RST) RATA-news. "Sales of ski tours for the upcoming winter season started earlier than a year ago. The…
The Interdepartmental Commission of Ministry of Transport of Russian Federation has authorized Aeroflot airlines to increase the frequency of flights to Hong Kong, Rome, Milan and Helsinki. As follows from the materials published on the website of Rosaviation, the carrier will now be able to fly to Hong…
“Russian airlines in June 2017 increased transportation by 20.2% for annual period (10.4 million people)”, - reported the source in Rosaviatsia. Domestic transportation increased by 7.4% up to 5.99 million passengers. International traffic grew by 43.4%, up to 4.42 million people. And passenger traffic…
Early booking of ski tours for the season-2016/2017 is actively going on. Most applications are for January period after the New Year holidays, when prices fall significantly.
Thus, in PAC GROUP sales of tours by the early booking program started in mid-June and today demand exceeds the last year's…
“The Moscow government again put up for sale 25.03% of stake in Intourist, trades are scheduled on September 20, 2017”, - according to the city's investment portal. The initial price of the asset is 990 million Rubles, although previously the capital expected to gain from the sale of its package 1.43…
It is interesting that Russia first legislatively gave a definition for "All Inclusive" and "Ultra All Inclusive" systems. We appreciated it together with the Turkish hotelier. The standards of “AI” and “UAI” systems will be put into operation this summer at the resorts of the Krasnodar Territory. Recommendations…
This follows from the statistics of Yandex search requests in June, which was analyzed by ATOR's analytical service. In Yandex almost 40% of all requests for vacation were for Turkey and the number of requests for tours in all the other areas decreased, including Russia.
In June 2017, Russian users…
