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…

According to Monaco statistic department of Tourism and Congresses, the number of nights booked by Russians during the period from January 2019 is 42 264 and that is 5,4% more than in 2018. So, Russia is on the fifth place according to tourists’ number in Monaco after France, Great Britain, Italy…

For the first 9 months of 2019 the Russian tourist flow to Antalya increased by 15% in annual terms. This year every third holidaymaker on the Antalya beaches was from Russia. 
According to the data of airports of Antalya and Gazipasa, from January to September 2019, more than 13 million foreign…

Tour operators have to respond to high demand with additional flights. For example, Pegas Touristik added additional boards to the existing flight program in Antalya and launched airplanes with a higher capacity from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Belgorod, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Mineralnye Vody…

Russian tourist flow to Croatia this year shows a positive trend, the demand exceeds the last year’s figures. In many ways, paradoxically, the growth of Croatia was provided by Turkey. This was stated by Raiko Ruzicka, the head of the representative office of tourism of the Republic of Croatia in…

Tour packages for the summer season of 2020 with a flight to the airport of Girona (Catalonia, Spain) are displayed on the website of the tour operator Tui Russia. A flight to Girona will allow passengers to save money and time, compared to arriving in Barcelona.
According to Tui Russia, the…

According to the data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) of Spain, in January-July 2019, 758 200 Russian tourists visited Spain, which is 11,2% higher than the figure for the same period a year earlier. Totally, over 7 months, 48 million foreign tourists visited Spain, which is 1,9% more…

According to the resort’s Tourism Chamber, the number of foreign tourists at the popular Bulgarian resort of Burgas declined last summer by 13,7%, the Russian tourists’ flow decreased by 25%. The number of tourists from Germany decreased even more noticeably - by 50%. “Almost 400 thousand foreign…

Several tour operators in Russia noted the growth of interest to early booking to Greece. Thus Alexander Tsandekidi Mouzenidis Travel TO CEO reported about 700 persons booked for summer season 2020. And that is 20 times more than the same period of the last year. Each year more tourists are booking…

Pobeda air company is planning to start international flight program from the airport of Krasnodar. The first destination will be Istanbul. Traditionally Pobeda air company declares the price of the air tickets starting from 499 rubles (8$) while launching the program. Since 30.10.2019 Boeing 737-800…

During the first 8 months of 2019 the tourists’ flow growth to Turkey is 16,7% and equals 10 760 00 tourist’s arrivals. During the period of January-August 2019, 3 865 310 Russians visited Turkey and that is 14,8% more than during the same period of 2018 and more than in whole 2017 (3 800 000 tourists).…

According to available information, two more cities will be added to the list of the current 6 cities of departure to Istanbul, one of them is Adler (Sochi) airport. The second is Kurumoch airport, serving the cities of Samara and Togliatti. This was stated in an interview of Ismail Bolyukbashi, the commercial…

In the beginning of November, charter flights of Intourist start from Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Ufa to Istanbul. The program will last till March 2020. The operator cooperates with Red Wings air company. The craft for the program will be Airbus A321-200 for 220…

The growth for the first half of the year amounted to 12.4%. In addition to the impressive increase in tourist arrivals to Malta from the Russian Federation, local statistics record a trend for longer holidays for the Russian tourists on the Maltese Islands: the average length of their stay here has…

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