For 9 months of this year, the tourist flow from Russia to Montenegro grew by 22,6% and amounted to more than 280 thousand trips. Tour operators confirm the trend. It is clear that the main growth share occurred in the summer season.  This year the tour…

I love talking to travelers. This October, on the way from Athens to Moscow my flight mate was a man of about my age. During four-hour flight I found out that Maxim and his friends rented a small yacht in Kos harbour. The team travelled about three weeks from one Greek island to another, enjoying…

Turkey released tourist statistics for 10 months of 2019. Russia confidently tops this rating both in the total number of tourist arrivals and in the dynamics of growth among the countries included in the TOP-5. According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, in January-October 2019, 40,7…

Tour operators confirm that the demand for the Aegean coast among Russians this year has increased significantly and continues to grow. 
The beach season on the Aegean coast of Turkey almost ended in October (resorts Dalaman, Fethiye, Oludeniz, Marmaris, Bodrum, Izmir, Kusadasi, Didim, Cesme)…

Charters in Brindisi (Puglia) are the first in the history of Russian tourism in Italy - the summer charter program in Puglia will become an exclusive product of Tui Russia. The company has already opened the sale of tours on charters to Puglia for the summer of 2020 - discounts on early bookings…

Russian tour operators started early booking of tours to Cyprus for the summer season of 2020. The first thing market participants are talking about when commenting on the early booking of Cyprus is that island hoteliers maintain their previous prices for the 2020 season without a significant increase.…

Experts explain the increase in demand by a combination of a number of factors that this year stimulate an increase of interest in Tenerife. Among them are the year-round season and the availability of tour operators’ blocks of seats on regular flights. Prices for tours start from 46 thousand Rubles…

According to the statistics of the Border Service of the Russian Federation, for the nine months of 2019, 309,1 thousand trips were made from Russia to Bulgaria with the purpose of tourism, which is 12% less than the same time a year earlier. The country is on the twelfth position in the ranking of…

The summer season in Greece came to the end. It’s high time to speak about the result and make some conclusions. We have turned to Russian tour operators working on the destination. Almost all operators consider the season 2019 in Greece as rather successful. But the situation is different for mass…

Turkey believes that after the record summer season of 2019, the Russians will actively have holidays on Antalya beaches in the winter months. In the winter season, flights to Antalya are planned from 16 cities of Russia.  For the first 10 months of 2019, 14,3 million foreign tourists visited the…

After several years of growth of tourist flow, Greece is planning to break the record in 2020. Such confidence was expressed by Harry Theoharis, the Minister of Tourism of the country.  “Thanks to hard work and public-private partnerships, tourism will break more records in both quality and quantity…

According to the data of the FSB Border Service of Russia, for 9 months of this year, Italy showed a significant growth of the number of departures among Russian tourists. If during the same months of 2018, the destination increased in volumes by 16%, then for the same period in 2019 – by 22,3%. …

Thinking about number of Russian tourists annually visiting Greece, I was surprised that data of various sources differ so much. I analyzed statistics of Bank of Greece, Consulates of Greece in Russia, Russian Statistics Service, and Russian Border Service. It is also impossible to use statistics…

For the 9 months of 2019, almost 6 million of Russians visited Turkey, which is a new record for the Russian market. By the number of arrivals, tourist flow from the Russian Federation for three quarters have already exceeded the figures for the whole of 2018. 
The Ministry of Tourism and Culture…

Russian tourists helped Cyprus to set a tourist flow’s record in September - tourists from Russia and Israel have increased the tourist flow in the destination up to 525 thousand visitors. This is 0,9% more than last year. And in general, this is the highest volume of tourist arrivals for this month…

As Nuria Lorenzo Gutierrez, the representative of the Tenerife Tourism Office, said, about 80 thousand Russian tourists annually come to Tenerife, which is just over 1% of the total foreign tourist flow. “Generally, the tourist flow from Russia to Tenerife is 79-80 thousand people per year, which…

As Cypriot news outlet Ant1 reported, from 2020 Cyprus and Israel will promote joint travel packages for tourists in Russia, the U.S. and Germany, focusing on golf, gastronomy and wellness holidays. A statement from Cypriot Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios and Israel’s Tourism Ministry Director-General…

The volume of winter transportation to Barcelona this year increased compared to last year. Tui became the only tour operator which has increased air volumes. If last year the company got blocks of seats on regular flights, this year in addition to blocks Tui launches own charter on the basis of Ural…

The cost of tours to Turkey for Russian tourists in 2020 will remain at the level of 2019, according to Erjument Yunalan, the commercial director of the tour operator Coral Travel. 
"Currently there are no prerequisites for price increases," he said at a press conference. Mr. E. Yunalan also…

Bulgaria will be expanding cooperation with Russia in tourism, so it seeks to facilitate the issuance of visas for Russian tourists, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said in an interview ahead of her visit to Moscow. 
“Russia is an extremely important partner…