The most popular countries for summer holidays in 2022 are Turkey and the Schengen countries. In the third place in popularity are domestic tours in Russia. Such data was provided by AlfaStrakhovanie insurance company. Among the popular destinations are Israel and Georgia, as well as the United Arab…

The European Travel Commission (ETC) has released another Long-Haul Travel Barometer (LHTB), a study that provides insight into tourists preferences for the summer of 2022 (May-August).

According to the ETC study, due to the events around Ukraine and anti-Russian sanctions, the desire of…

Travel planning service OneTwoTrip found out where Russians would like to go on vacation in July. To do this, the company analyzed the data of air tickets search services with a departure in the middle of summer. Turkey is the most popular destination.

The top countries are as follows -…

The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), was running last week from June 15 to 18. Over the last 24 years, the Forum has become a leading global platform for members of the business community to meet and discuss the key economic issues facing Russia, emerging markets, and the world…

Travel planning service OneTwoTrip determined which foreign destinations tourists traveled to most often this spring.

The largest increase among the top 50 popular destinations in comparison with the winter period was recorded for flights to Vietnam - more than 20 times. Next are India,…

For the majority of Russian tourists, vacations abroad remain as a dream - only 8% tourists will go abroad of the 47% who have planned vacation in the summer.

Such statistics were presented by a survey conducted by Otkritie Bank and the insurance company Rosgosstrakh. About 1 000 potential…

According to the sales of package tours in the federal network of travel agencies "1001 tour", in the TOP-5 countries in which Russians bought the largest number of tour packages with departures in June, Turkey occupies the first place (57% of all sales from "1001 tour").

In the second place…

Russian tourists named the countries where they would like to go most of all in the absence of restrictions. The top three are Italy, Turkey and France, according to the NAFI analytical center.

The Russians also named (in descending order) China, Egypt, Germany, Japan, Spain, Thailand, USA,…

Among foreign countries, Armenia, Tajikistan and Turkey were the most in demand in early May.

However, the demand for flights to Armenia decreased by almost 60%, while to Tajikistan, on the contrary, it increased significantly: a year ago, during this period, the restoration of air communication…

The Border Service of the FSB of Russia published statistics, according to which in the first quarter of 2022, Russians made 3,88 million trips abroad with all purposes.

As per the Border Service, the statistics of the leading destinations are as follows:

Abkhazia (744,5 thousand…

When choosing a place for a future holiday, Russians are now guided not so much by political motives as by security issues. Many still remember how all borders were closed due to the coronavirus and people had to spend huge sums to return to their homeland.

We recently faced a situation…

According to Federal Antimonopoly Services (FAS) of Russia Booking.com paid a fine of 1.3 billion rubles (ca. 17 mio USD). The case against Booking.com was initiated after an appeal by Opora Rossii  an organization representing small and medium sized businesses. FAS had warned the online accommodation…

Last year, Russian citizens made more than 10,1 million trips abroad for tourism purposes. In 2021 Russians had access to trips to 32 foreign countries, the outbound flow to which from Russia was allowed.

In total, Russian tourists made 10 105 069 trips for tourism purposes, which was 47,2%…

Against the backdrop of an unprecedented geopolitical crisis, which resulted in a depreciation of the ruble, an increase in prices for tours abroad, as well as a halt of air traffic to most foreign destinations, Russians began to buy tours abroad much less.

According to the federal network…

The demand for foreign holidays during the May holidays is still behind the pre-Covid 2019 period by about 10%. The most popular destination for Russian tourists during this period is Turkey, said Maya Lomidze, executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR).

“Nowadays,…

According to the aggregated data of tour operators, which were studied by the ATOR Analytical Service, the volume of bookings of package tours abroad decreased by 3,5 times. This is the same as it was at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic two years ago.

As of the ATOR Analytical Service,…

While European countries are rapidly closing for Russian tourists, flights to the most massive destinations - to Egypt and Turkey - continue to be operated (with the exception of temporarily closed airports in the South of Russia). There are no prerequisites for closing these countries for Russians…

- Latvia will allow Russian tourists to enter the country from March 1 as long as they present a negative PCR test, authorities in the Baltic country announced. Previously, visitors needed a European vaccination certificate to cross Latvia's borders. While Latvian authorities haven't yet resumed issuing…

The pandemic has changed the attitude of Russians to various trips. 30% of respondents say that they have begun to be afraid of them, although they still have to go to other cities. The same number of respondents in the past two years have become less likely to travel, and one in five takes additional…

Egypt became the leader of the winter season 2021-2022 among organized tourists. At the same time, Russian resorts were in the second place, displacing Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. This is evidenced by the data of the online service for searching and booking tours Travelata.ru, collected on…