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…

Experienced travel agents know that the collection of luxury Gran Meliá resorts evokes the essence of Spanish culture. Outstanding architecture, the quality of the dishes echoing local flavors and warm, attentive service allow the guests to feel the essence of Spanish hospitality.  Let us explore…

In January-June 2019, the tourist flow from Russia to Spain grew by 13,2%. In the summer season, sales of tours to this country show double-digit dynamics. Tour operators connect this fact both…

This summer, most Russian tour operators do not arrange charter flights to Italy, limiting themselves by blocks of seats on regular flights. Charters, as regular, fly only to Rimini, Calabria, and Sicily. Flight programs start in June and are scheduled mainly till October. In the summer of 2019, tour…

Anex Tour (the Turkish tour operator) officially announced that the company is starting a cruise business buying the first cruise ship in its history. The cruise product of Anex Tour will be offered on the Russian market. The founder and chairman of the board of directors of Anex Tour, Neshet Kochkar,…

Nord wind has started booking for the new destination Nizhnekamsk-Istanbul. The air company will connect airport Begishevo (Nizhnekamsk, the population of 239  000 people) with Istanbul starting from October, 27 for the whole autumn-winter season 2019/2020. The lowest round trip ticket price is 17…

In the winter season 2019/20 the number of charters to Turkey will increase significantly: the winter tours to Antalya from 10 cities of Russia have become available in the booking system of Intourist tour operator. Considerable increase of transportation on the destination may reduce the prices of…

From August 15, Royal Flight will resume charter flights from Kaluga International Airport to Antalya in Turkey. This information is provided by the press service of the regional government.   The agreement was reached at a working meeting between the region’s governor, Anatoly Artamonov and the general…