Despite the end of the season, the main Turkish resort continues to update records of foreign arrivals, primarily from the Russian market.
According to Antalya Airport, as of October 16, there were registered 11,610,925 foreign citizens (+27.6% compared with the same period in 2017). In the first…
Coral Travel tour operator this autumn and winter is expanding its flight program to Turkey, on the basis of which the tours to the coast of Turkey are formed.
“Until this year, we flew to Turkey in the winter…
“S7 Airline in the winter schedule of this year plans to open flights to the island of Tenerife (the largest of the Canary Islands archipelago) and to the Vietnamese resort Cam Ran”, told the senior vice president of S7 Tatiana Filyova. “The flights to Tenerife will be performed from Moscow, the flights…
In the beginning of the winter season, Coral Travel will offer tourists more programs in Turkey and new resorts in this country. The winter Turkey of Coral Travel will grow mainly due to the programs in Antalya and Alanya. The tour operator launches the winter program to Alanya (Gazipasa airport) for…
Already in the first 9 months of 2018, 4.13 million tourist arrivals from Russia were recorded at the Turkish resort, which already exceeded all the record annual figures of previous years. Up to now, Antalya has not yet taken more than 4 million tourists from one country even for a year. According to…
Russian tourist flow to Spain continues to show positive dynamics. For the first 8 months of 2018, about 854 thousand citizens of the Russian Federation visited the country.
The TOP-3 countries in structure of the number of arrivals included the UK (12.9 million tourists, -2.9% compared with the…
The Russian tourist flow to Turkey for 8 months of 2018 has overcome the four-million mark. Only in August, 910 thousand of Russian tourists visited Turkey. This is 25.59% more compared to the same period in 2017. Totally for the summer months, together with May, 3 million 662 thousand people arrived…
In the winter season 2018–2019 Turkey will set a record of transportation on the Russian market, and tours can now be bought with discounts up to 50%.
The market participants say that the growth of transportation’s volumes in the winter period is connected with the high demand of Turkish product…
The seasonal discounts for accommodation - up to 50% - and the good weather provide Turkey to be in the top demand in autumn season. A number of companies note that the demand for October is several times higher than last year. However, the direction is actively booked not only for October, but also…
The conflict between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Patriarchate of Constantinople has spread to tourism. As Interfax reported on October 16, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church drew the attention of tourists to the importance of observing the decisions of the Synod, which completely…
According to the Department of Tourism and Commercial Marketing of the Government of Dubai (DTCM), for the first six months of this year, 405,000 Russian tourists visited Dubai, which is 74% more than in the same period of the last year. This is the most significant growth among the abroad markets of…
During the eight months of 2018, 4,186 million Russian tourists visited Turkey. This was reported by local media with reference to the statistics of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey. Thus, the growth of the tourist flow from Russia from January to August exceeded by 20.3% the indicators…
The airport of Turkish resort of Alanya in the province of Antalya expects to host almost 250,000 Russian passengers by the end of 2018. And for the first time tour operators are extending the charter programs to Alanya for the winter season. "Gazipasha-Alanya Airport hosted the first flight from Russia…
Market participants, predicting the demand for the next season, note a number of important factors that may affect sales. First, as experts say, in conditions of rising fuel prices charter carriers, affiliated with tour operators, will prefer to fly more in those directions where subsidies from foreign…
“In the past two years the Russians have traveled more often to French region of Alsace. In 2017 the tourist flow grew by 68%, in the first half of 2018 - by 6%”, - said the French Ambassador to Russia Sylvie Bermann. "Last year the number of Russian tourists visited the region increased by 68%. It connects…
ANEX Tour operator will transfer payments to Turkish partners in Euros. This was announced on Monday, October 1, by Yana Muromova, the deputy general director of the company. “Turkish hoteliers work with all markets in Euros. And for the Russian partners recalculate prices in dollars and at an unprofitable…
Tour operators summed up the results of the season-2018 in Bulgaria and named possible conditions for growth in sales on the direction next year. Sales of Bulgaria in autumn season are still going well, but some seasonal special offers will not be enough for the growth of mass summer tourism. The season…
According to tour operators, the sales of tours to Bulgaria for this autumn season are more active than for the autumn one of the last year. According to ICS Travel Group, demand has grown by 15-20% on a year-on-year basis, bookings reach the end of October. According to Intourist tour operator, the…
The Russian tourist flow to Spain for the first six months grew by 10.7% in a year-on-year basis. At the same time, 60% of Russian arrivals are to Catalonia resorts. In June the number of Russians in Catalonia was 16% more than a year ago. According to the National Institute of Statistics (INE), in January-June…
My 4,5-years-old daughter looks to be extremely unlucky with getting Schengen visas from the Greek Consulate. She is less than 5, but has already 5 Greek Shengen visas and today we applied for the sixth one. The previous one was issued in May 2018 for 4 months regardless the fact that her both her…
