23.08.2017

Interest for tours to East Asia is growing in Russia
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…
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15.08.2017

Tour operators reported about increase in demand for winter ski tours
“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…
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15.08.2017

Aeroflot will fly to Hong Kong, Italy and Finland more often
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…
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08.08.2017

The Russian tourist flow to Vienna increased by 34% in the first half of 2017
“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…
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03.08.2017

"Last minute tours" – it is not about Spain in the season-2017

Leading Russian tour operators report about serious increase in demand for Spanish…

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03.08.2017

In June Russian airlines increased international transportation by 43%
“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…
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31.07.2017

For the early booking of ski tours the greatest demand is for France. And hotels in Austria are gradually switching to direct customers
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…
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31.07.2017

Moscow Mayor's Office sells a share in Intourist with a discount of 30%
“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…
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31.07.2017

In Russia "All Inclusive" system has legalized. What are the differences between Russian and Turkish standards of “AI”?
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…
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20.07.2017

"The Turkish factor" unaffected only on Thailand and Spain
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…
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19.07.2017

Tour operators have reduced programs in Russia due to low demand
“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…
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18.07.2017

Tunisia will follow up a success of the last year

Tour operators report about increase of the average length of rest of tourists in Tunisia this year, but restrainedly estimate the prospects of growth in absolute numbers.

Flight programs

The press service of "Biblio Globus" tour operator reported that the…

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10.07.2017

Russian tourists are again interested in Slovenia
Russians this year are more actively buying tours with rest and treatment in Slovenia than in the past. This is due to both the profitable course of the Euro and the active promotion of this direction by tour operators. Among tour operators the growth of sales of tours to Slovenia in June was from 15…
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10.07.2017

Which islands of Greece are most popular among Russian tourists
Demand for Greek islands in this summer season has grown significantly, according to tour operators. Islands are at the pick of Popularity Most tour operators believe that island holidays in Greece this season are more in demand - even though hotels of approximately the same level on the islands…
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21.06.2017

In January-May Russian railways transported 20% more passengers abroad
“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…
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20.06.2017

In January-March the tourist flow from Russia to abroad has increased for the first time since 2013
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,…
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16.06.2017

Demand for short tours has grown
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…
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15.06.2017

What foreign tourist destinations are chosen by rich Russians
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…
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15.06.2017

TEZ Tour increases transportation volumes to Phuket and to Dominican Republic
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…
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14.06.2017

The number of foreign trips of Russians increased by 24% in the first quarter of 2017
“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),…
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