The interest of Russians to travel to the countries of Northern Europe this year has grown. According to tour operators, the northern European destinations sold well in the summer and are actively booked for the winter season and New Year holidays.
“Russians have begun to travel more to Scandinavia…
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…
Despite the growth of the cost of tours in European destinations, operators note an increase of the volume of sales of sightseeing tours for the autumn season by about 18-20%. In addition, market participants note the growth of bookings for the New Year holidays.
"The total number of sightseeing tours…
“Turkey, Greece and Cyprus are in the list of the most popular destinations for Russians in the summer of 2017”, - said the Executive Director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) Maya Lomidze.
"Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Spain, as well as Croatia, Montenegro and Italy are…
“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…
On its website tour operator Ted Travel announced on August 24 about the termination of activities due to the inability to fulfill its obligations for tourists and customers. “The reason for the suspension of the activities was the sale of tours at prices below the market average”, - the Association…
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…
Such data follows from the statistics of search requests in Yandex for July, analyzed by the Analytical Service of ATOR. Over the past month the search interest for the countries of East Asia has grown by 12% and by 14% interest for Europe has fallen.
As a result, the share of requests for East Asian…
“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…
“The number of night of Russian tourists in the hotels of Austrian capital was 211 thousand for the period January - June 2017, which is 34% more than a year earlier”, - it is according to statistics published on the website of the Tourism Board of Vienna.
Among the most frequent visitors to Vienna…
“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…
