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…

In January-June 2019, 574.2 thousand Russian tourists visited Spain, which is 13.2% higher than the figure for the same period a year earlier, according to the data of the country's National Institute of Statistics (INE). 

The total tourist flow in the first half of the year grew by 2,8%…

The Russians tasted summer Istanbul. In the summer the Turkish metropolis is increasingly positioned as a destination for a short, but full-scaled vacation, where you can find not only excursion programs and shopping, but also a beach. 

According to Turkish statistics, for the first 5 months…

The tourist authorities of Antalya note the daily records of the arrivals of tourists, and the Russian tourist market shows the most significant results. Thus, according to Hürriyet Daily News, from January to July 18, Antalya hosted totally 6.9 million foreign tourists. This is an increase of 16%. 

Such…

In Malta the growth trend, recorded in the Russian tourist traffic (+ 26.5%), is actual for the current year. Tour operators acting on the destination expect that the increase in the number of tourists will be even greater. 

According to the Central Statistical Bureau of Malta, for the first…

Starting from August 2, Ural Airlines launches charter flights on the route Perm — Antalya. This information was provided by the press service of Perm International Airport. The flights will be performed on Fridays on Airbus A321 with a capacity of 200 passengers. The flight time is 4.5 hours. Departure…

According to the Russian understanding a hotel is a complex of accommodation services, which manly includes a room itself and some minimum services like making beds and cleaning a room and WC facilities. Generally this interpretation corresponds with the WTO definition of a hotel. Still the strong…

2019 summer statistic looks not optimistic for Greece, at least from Russia. According to Heraklion airport information, the number of tourists’ arrivals is 20% lower than during the same period in 2018.  Anex Tour has planned less charters to Crete from Moscow from five to three weekly, having the…

The Russian tourists occupy the second position in the number of European tourist flow to Cyprus. 

Traditional European markets "turn away" from Cyprus. This assessment was voiced by the edition In Cyprus. In general, the number of arriving tourists decreased by 0.9% between January and…

Lacking European tourists, Greek hoteliers are trying to support the season by stimulating sales of tours in Russia. According to the Greek Tourist Confederation (SETE), in the 2019 season the number of seats on international flights to regional airports of the leading resorts decreased by 7% compared…

Since 9-th of July there is the regular flight from Anapa to Istanbul with Onur Air on Airbus A320.  Departure from Anapa is on Tuesday and Friday at 03:40, arrival to Istanbul is at 05:40, and flight from Istanbul is at 01:00 with arrival to Anapa at 02:40.  The air company informs that the minimal…

Next week seven-day tour packages to the island of Rhodes with departures from Moscow are sold at prices from 28 thousand Rubles (396 Euros) for two persons. It is cheaper than at the beginning of July, when prices started from 32 thousand Rubles (452 Euros). Thus, the previous forecasts of market…

Interest for Crete among Russians this year is obviously weaker than in the past: the tourist flow shows a negative trend since spring. In June, despite the expectations of tour operators, the picture did not change: for the first month of summer, 54 thousand tourists from Russia came to the Greek…

Already at the height of the current season Mouzenidis Travel tour operator opened the early booking of tours to Greece for the summer of 2020. Discounts for accommodation in club hotels of the chain Bomo now reach 40%. 

According to the press service of Mouzenidis Travel, the early booking…

“Prices for tour packages to Turkey will not decrease, since the demand for travel from Russian tourists is already very high,” told the Executive Director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) Maya Lomidze. 

“The demand for Turkey is so good that I do not see any prerequisite…

The flight program of Coral Travel – Moscow/Heraklion - is optimized: one of the five flight chains is removed (from July 19 to October 11) on Fridays. This was reported by a representative of the tour operator. “The reason is insufficient loading of boards. The operator suggested the agencies to…