Package tours to Istanbul with departures from Moscow and St. Petersburg have appeared in the Biblio-Globus tour operator's sales system. The offer is based on direct flights of Rossiya Airlines. The flight program from both cities has started on November 2 and scheduled until the end of March 2023.

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The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey has published fresh statistics on the arrivals of foreign tourists in the country for August and 8 months of 2022.

According to the Turkish Tourism Authority, in August 2022, Russians made 806 505 trips to this country. This is 11% less than…

Tourists began to actively book New Year's Turkey. As of mid-September 2022, sales figures for New Year's tours from a number of tour operators are already several times higher than the figures for the same period last year.

Russian and Turkish airlines will continue to fly to Turkey in…

The tour operator Anex Tour expands the options of offerings to the resorts of Egypt in the autumn season. In order to optimize transportation, the company proposed a rather unusual project - a joint tour with a route to Egypt through Antalya, which includes a holiday program in Hurghada or Sharm…

The Turkish Ministry of Tourism has published a statistical report on the number of tourist arrivals for the first 7 months and July 2022. According to these data, 23 million international tourist visits were recorded in Turkey in January-July. This is 2,3 times more than in the same period of 2021.

Russia,…

The Russian tour operator Coral Travel, following Pegas Touristik, began offering tours to Turkey on the wings of the new airline - Southwind.

There are departures from 6 regions. Representatives of tour operators noted that Southwind flights are popular among Russians.

“Last weekend,…

According to tour operators, the Bulgarian Consulate in Moscow informed them of the temporary suspension of the acceptance of documents for tourist visas due to the current emergency situation.

The reason is the announcement of 14 employees of the diplomatic mission and consular offices…

The Ministry of Tourism of Bulgaria reported an almost 4-fold increase of tourist flow from Russia in January-May 2022 compared to the same period in 2021.

“Despite the difficult international situation and the lack of direct flights, in January-May, 33 5800 arrivals of Russian tourists…

This season the tour operator Intourist has prepared a new offer - a vacation on the Aegean coast of Turkey with a cruise to the Greek islands on the Blue Sapphire liner.

There are now 10-night packages for tourists, within which tourists can go on a cruise for 3 or 4 nights, as well as…

Turkish airline Southwind is preparing to transport tourists to Antalya from at least five cities of Russia. This information appeared in the seasonal schedule of Kazan airport. Departure from Kazan is on Thursdays from August 4 to October 27 and from August 7 to October 23 on Sundays.

There…

Turkish airlines Southwind (a new airline created for the Russian market) and Corendon Airlines may open new flight programs from Ufa to Antalya.

Corendon Airlines plans to launch flights to Antalya from July 26 and fly 4 times a week, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

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ATOR studied the sales statistics of the five largest players on the Turkish market - Coral Travel, Anex Tour, Pegas Touristik, Fun&Sun and Intourist.

The tour operators state that in terms of the number of tourists, they sent to Turkey in June 2022, the decrease from June of pre-pandemic…

A package offer for holidays in the resorts of Cyprus has been published on the website of the tour operator Biblio-Globus.

Due to EU sanctions, Russian airlines are prohibited from flying to Cyprus and other EU countries, and European carriers, respectively, are prohibited from operating…

The Russian market is in the third place in May in terms of the number of arrivals in Istanbul. The share of visitors from Germany in May 2022 accounts for 8,25% of the total number of foreign visitors. Germany is followed by Iran (7,04%), Russia (6,5%), USA (5,04%), Great Britain (4,65%), France…

From July 3 the tour operator Coral Travel has added three more Pegasus Airlines flights from Moscow to Izmir to the two existing ones. Thus, from the beginning of July, the frequency of flights increased to 5 per week.

Now, the tour operator sends tourists to the resorts of the Aegean coast…

In connection with the growing interest in foreign holiday, Solvex company opens sales of tours to Bulgarian resorts with a flight through Yerevan. The General Director, Dmitry Tsonev spoke about current prices and offers for the most popular resorts and hotels.

The program starts on July…

The tour operators Anex Tour and Intourist put up for sale interesting tours to Istanbul, which combine holiday in the city and at beach hotels on the coast of the Marmara and Black Seas. Departures are from 14 cities of Russia.

As the tour operator companies explain, tour packages with…

The statistics of tourist arrivals from Russia to Antalya in 2022 shows a very serious decrease from the pre-covid volumes. The “failure” this spring is 70-80% of the figures for 2019. According to Turkish analysts, western markets cannot completely "close" this hole.

So, the following numbers…

The tour operator Anex Tour announced the opening of sales of tour packages to Spain. So far, we are talking only about the sale of accommodation - full package tours are not possible due to the sanctions.

Tourists will also have to apply for a visa on their own at the visa center. Nevertheless,…

The large Russian charter airline Azur Air, affiliated with the tour operator Anex-Tour, continues to expand its network of flights to Turkey from Russian cities in the summer season.

The carrier announced flights to the main resort center of Turkey - Antalya - and Dalaman (Mugla province)…