“Tour operators are cutting summer programs and selling significantly less tours around Russia due to low demand”, - reports Commersant news paper referring to representatives of the tourism industry. Reduction of interest of organized tourists to rest in Russia is forcing tour operators and hoteliers…
“Transportation of passengers by long-distance trains to foreign countries increased by 19.6% for the period from January to May 2017 in comparison with the same period of the last year”, - said in the press service of Russian railways (RZD). The passenger traffic of trains to foreign countries amounted…
According to the Border Guard Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russia Federation, in the first quarter of 2017 the departure of Russia tourist abroad has grown by 44.6% against the same period of the last year and amounted 2 million 138.9 thousand trips.
Among 25 most significant directions,…
In the first half of June, the intensity of booking of trips lasting 2-3 nights for the end of June is 25% higher than in the same period of 2016. This follows from the operational statistics provided by the Booking Center of the United Network TBG and Hot tours companies.
The biggest demand, like…
According to a recent analysis Premier 2017 conducted by Ipsos Comcon company, more than two-thirds of the wealthy Russian tourists, who traveled abroad in the past 12 months, used the services of travel companies.
In a study conducted in April 2017, Ipsos Comcon specialists studied the lifestyle…
In the upcoming autumn-winter season 2017-2018 the international tour operator TEZ Tour jointly with IFly launches two own flight programs to the high demanded beach destinations - Thailand (Phuket Island) and Dominican Republic (Punta Cana). "Mass beach tourism is returning now to the pre-crisis indicators…
“In January-March 2017 the number of trips of Russian citizens abroad amounted more than 6.7 million, which is 24% higher than in the same period of the previous year”, - according to the data of Rosstat.
The list of the most popular countries among the Russians is led by Finland (736 thousand trips),…
“Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group plans to open about nine new hotels in Russia until 2022”, - said David Jenkins the Vice-President for Business Development of the Group in Russia. According to him, at present time they have signed contracts for the management of three hotels under the Radisson Blu brand,…
VIM-AVIA announced the reduction of 12.8% of charter flights, from June 2 to June 15 inclusive. The solution is associated with the need to minimize delays caused by the late arrival of three aircrafts from scheduled flights. According to the company, all obligations to passengers of charter flights,…
“Russian tourists began to look for tours to exotic islands more often, but Turkey remained the leader by the number of search requests in April”, - the Association of Russian Tour Operators (ATOR) reports with reference to Yandex search service statistics.
In April 2017, Russian users of Yandex searched…
The Arbitration Court of the Moscow District confirmed the recovery of $ 5.8 million from LLC Natalie Tours in favour of Transaero. Thus, the cassation appeal was dismissed. Recall, that in November 2016 the Moscow Arbitration had met a claim of Transaero to recover this amount from LLC Natalie Tours…
“Tour operators note an increase of demand by 30% in early May for travel to Europe”, - told the Press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Tyurina.
"It's almost impossible to find air tickets to all European destinations, the flow has increased by one and a half times in comparison…
These are the plans presented by the General Director of the tour operator TUI Russia Taras Demura. According to Mr. Demura, this year the tour operator plans to increase its volumes by 3.5 times and send at least 200 thousand Russian tourists to Turkey and 150 thousand to other countries. According…
In March, according to the analysis conducted by ATOR, the most popular destination (as expected) was Turkey. 29.2% of all users, who searched tours by web resource "Sletat.ru", were choosing Turkey. Interest to this country grew by 102% against February of current year.
Significantly less, 7.9% of…
This conclusion, in particular, follows from the analysis of statistical data of resource services Sletat.ru, which was conducted by the Analytical Service of ATOR.
In March, potential tourists searched tours with the help of Sletat.ru services by 36.2% more than in the same period of the last year.…
“Russian tourists prefer to book air tickets to foreign countries for May holidays”, - informed the representatives of air ticket’s search and booking services.
"In 2017, the demand for May holidays remains at the level of 2016.But, with some difference - now our customers prefer foreign destinations.…
The service of online bookings Aviasales named the most popular beach destinations for Russians this summer. The service conducted a large-scale study, taking into account 50 thousand bookings for the period from June to September 2017.
“The beach destinations account 43% of all bookings. We studied…
“Rosa Khutor became the leader in the rating of ski resorts, which are popular among Russians in April 2017”, - according to the analysis of the RoomGuru.ru – the hotel search service.
The rating was compiled on the base of hotel bookings for the period April 1-30, 2017.
Top-10 is headed by Rosa…
In the new spring-summer season, the AZUR AIR airline has expanded the geography of flights to the cities of the Russian Federation. On its route map seven more cities were added, whose inhabitants can fly by airline airplanes to the best world resorts. The tourists from Murmansk, Nizhnevartovsk, Nizhnekamsk,…
“The cost of foreign tourist trips for Russians fell by 15-30% in comparison with the last year”, - said the General Director of NTK Intourist tour operator Viktor Topolkaraev.
"In rubles in comparison with the last year the tours have fallen in price for Russians by 10-15%, and even by 20%. Also…
