After the start of a special military operation in Ukraine (February 2022) many foreign companies announced their withdrawal from the Russian market. But not all of them actually left the country. A significant part of the foreigners continued their activities, and some of those who left began…

It is still too early to talk about an "explosive growth" of foreign bookings. The demand for foreign tours is significantly behind the pre-Covid period.

In addition, the most popular destinations, such as Turkey, risk to lose part of the tourist flow. Instead of Turkey, Russian tourists…

This year in May, a quarter more Russian tourists traveled abroad than during this period in 2022. The tourist flow to Asia has grown noticeably, but the CIS countries have received fewer travelers from Russia.

The most popular destinations for Russians are Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkey.

Between…

Despite the difficulties in obtaining Schengen visas, Russian tour operators began to offer tours to the EU countries. However, the volume of demand for European holidays is only 15-20% of the level that was in the pre-pandemic 2019.

Further restoration of the tourist flow will be constrained…

Some tourists are reoriented from Turkey to Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and even Tunisia. This is due to high prices. Not everyone is ready to pay $ 2 500 - $ 3 850 for 7 nights at those Turkish hotels that used to cost 1,5–2 times cheaper.

As Andrey Gridnev (CEO of Last-minute tours,…

The market of group outbound tourism in 2023 will grow up to 20% compared to 2022. Such a forecast was made by Vladimir Rubtsov, CEO of Fun&Sun tour operator at MITT 2023 exhibition.

According to ATOR, tour operators sent about 7 million tourists to the TOP-20 tourist destinations in 2022,…

According to the statistics of sales of package tours of the 1001 Tour network of travel agencies, Egypt took the leading position at the end of March. This fact is natural, since at this time it is already comfortable to swim in the country’s resorts.

Shares of sales of tour packages for…

The Russian Union of Travel Industry (RST) named the most popular holiday destinations for Russian tourists in the summer of 2023. Turkey is the leader in the number of early bookings from tour operators.

"According to Fun&Sun, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Egypt, and Thailand…

Citizens of the Russian Federation made 23,2 million foreign trips with all purposes in 2022, of which almost 7 million were tourist trips. This conclusion follows from the statistics of the Border Service of Russia.

Most of these trips occurred in the third quarter of the year – 2,4 million.…

According to preliminary forecasts, at least 23,5 million Russians went abroad with all the purposes of their visits this year (10% more than in 2021). At the same time, about 40% of outbound flow falls on 17 destinations which have a tourist nature.

As per experts, in 2022 over 9,4 million…

The vice-President of RST (Russian Union of Travel Industry) Dmitry Gorin told which visa-free countries are of the greatest interest for Russians. Most often, Russians choose Turkey, Egypt and Thailand as destinations for holidays without visa.

“Russians can fly for vacation without a visa…

The cost of foreign tourism services in the Russian Federation in 2022 jumped up to 1,7 times (by 70,68%) with a general inflation for the year at the level of 11,94%, according to materials published by Rosstat (Federal State Statistics Service).

A year earlier, in 2021, foreign tourism…

The share of foreign destinations in the outgoing 2022 in the purchase of air tickets was 14%. The destinations of the near abroad, as well as Turkey, are in the lead.

However, tickets to Europe, for obvious reasons, have risen in price even more. Such statistics were presented by Tutu travel…

Tour operators record a significant decrease of the demand for tours to Europe for the New Year holidays and in general for the winter season 2022-2023. There are three main reasons: difficulties to obtain visas, blocking of Russian bank cards abroad, as well as the lack of direct flights.

The…

The interest of Russian tourists in winter recreation areas has changed dramatically. According to the latest data, the Russians will spend the New Year holidays in Turkey. Earlier, Egypt has traditionally been a massive budget winter destination for the New Year with a warm sea and sunny weather…

The Border Service of the FSB of Russia has published data on outbound foreign trips of Russians for the three quarters of 2022. The ATOR Analytical Service studied the statistics of the Border Service and popular tourist countries, compiling the TOP foreign countries visited by Russian tourists in…

Currently, Russian tourists can fly by direct flight to the following popular tourist countries:

1. Bahrain: direct flights from Moscow on Gulf Air. The price of a tour with a flight and accommodation at a 4* hotel, BB is from $ 4 009 for two persons for 7 nights.
2. Belarus: direct…

“Tourism will develop!” - Julia Kuzenskaya, Deputy chair, Committee for Tourism Development of St.Petersburg spoke during the press-conference devoted to development of medical tourism of Petersburg International Health Forum, which took place at Expoforum 26 of October 2022. Experts from…

Compared with the end of September, the cost of air tickets for flights from Russia to abroad has decreased by 4-10 times, depending on the destination.

A month ago, the travel industry faced a boom in demand for tours and air tickets abroad. Prices have increased 3-5 times compared to the…

Sales of tours abroad by tour operators decreased by 15-30%.  About 30% of booked tours of travel companies were canceled, according to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR).

“At the current moment, tour operators estimate the overall decline of sales at the level of 25-30%.…