Two major tour operators, Intourist and Mouzenidis Travel, agreed on a strategic partnership in Greece. The tour operators will carry out joint contracting of hotels in Greece and become partners in air transportation. This was announced by the top managers of tour operators as part of the summer…

ANEX Tour this year decided to triple the regional charter program to Cyprus. In addition to Moscow in the summer season the tour operator for the first time will launch charter chains to Cyprus from St. Petersburg and two regions of southern Russia. 

Recall, this year ANEX Tour is working…

The interest of Russian tourists to Tunisia is increasing. However, the experts’ opinion on the growth in demand is different. So, the majority believes the number of sells have increased by 10–20% compared to last year’s figures, while Biblio-Globus notes 150% growth of sales on early booking stage.…

The active booking of tours in Antalya by Russians for the New Year holidays allowed the Turkish resort to sharply revive the "low season" in January. And the Russian market once again confirms its leading position of source market in Turkey. 

The results of the tourist flow for January…

Russians topped the list of foreign tourists entering Turkey through border gates in 2018, according to a Turkish Interior Ministry statement. 

Officials from the ministry’s Directorate General of Migration Management told Turkey’s Anadolu Agency that nearly 6 million Russians came to the…

Roman Sarbash, the head of the VIP tourism department of incoming company Elion Club - a subsidiary of Mouzenidis Group holding company - told about this. According to him, over the past year the holding notes an increase in demand for luxury accommodation in Greece at the level of 8-10%. 

According…

Mouzenidis Group holding and the hotel chain Cronwell Hotels & Resorts will launch in 2019 a chain of hotels under the co-brand Bomo Collection By Cronwell in Northern Greece. 

According to representatives of the tour operator, the Cronwell Hotels & Resorts chain manages and owns 4 hotels…

Bulgaria released official statistics on tourist arrivals in the country for 2018. Russia is on the sixth position in Bulgaria among ten source markets.  

According to the Ministry of Tourism of Bulgaria, a foreign tourist flow to the country has been growing for the third year in a row.…

“The price of a weekly tour from Moscow to Belek (Turkey), for the beginning of June, in 5* hotels is at the level of 140 thousand Rubles (1,869 Euros) for two persons. It is a bit cheaper than a similar tour to Halkidiki (Greece). And equivalent to the cost of a tour to Rhodes.” said the representatives…

Tour operators have significantly adjusted their flight programs from Rostov-on-Don. So, in the summer season there will be no flights to Rhodes, Corfu, Bulgaria. Frequency of flights to Crete and Halkidiki is reduced by 2 times. At the same time, new destinations have appeared which will attract…

In the summer 2019, TUI Russia tour operator plans to launch a charter program to the resorts of Albania. 

Flights will be performed by Ural Airlines. The first flight will take place on June 18, the last - on August 22. Totally, eight flights are scheduled. Duration of tours is 9–10 nights.…

Aeroflot has begun ticket sales for flights to Palma de Mallorca, the capital of the Spanish island Mallorca. Regular flights on the Moscow – Palma de Mallorca – Moscow route will launch on 1 June 2019. 

Four weekly flights on Airbus A320 aircraft will operate on the following schedule: 

Moscow…

From April 29, 2019, S7 Airlines will start flights from Pulkovo to the Italian island of Sardinia. The flights will be operated to the city of Olbia and will become a novelty in the new schedule of St. Petersburg air harbor. 

The flights of S7 Airlines from Pulkovo to Sardinia will be performed…

TUI Russia tour operator has developed a flight program in Cyprus for the summer of 2019. The company will have its own charter program from Moscow to Paphos as a novelty of the season, and the total cost of tours in this area may be reduced by 10%.  

The charter flights of the tour operator…

By the results of 2018, Greece hosted a record number of foreign tourists. The Russian market showed a good result - it is on the 6-th position in the TOP-10 key source markets of Greece. 

The past year ended with a new historical record for Greek tourism: Greece was visited by 33 million…

According to the information of tour operators, the majority of Cypriot hotels remain prices of the last year for the next season. Some experts say that, in comparison with 2018, tours may even be cheaper.  

Now the booking of summer Cyprus is already underway, but the main activity is expected…

Bulgaria noted a general increase in incoming flow of 5%, while the Russian market is among the TOP 5 despite the decline, which is noted by Russian sources. The Minister of Tourism of Bulgaria, Nikolina Angelova, reported on the total number of tourists at the traditional annual meeting with ambassadors.

Thus,…

According to aggregated estimates of tour operators, in this winter season the demand for ski tours in Bulgaria is at least as good as last year. Sales of a number of tour operators show a steady growth due to the action of early booking, which started in the summer,

As Anna Filatovskaya,…

According to the National Institute of Statistics of Spain (INE), more than 1.1 million Russian tourists visited the country from January to October this year, which is almost 6% more than in the first ten months of last year. Only in October the number of tourists from Russia grew 12.6%, and amounted…