At the end of 2022, Turkey once again confirmed its status as the main market of outbound tourism in Russia.

According to the data released by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 44 564 395 foreign tourists visited the country in 2022 (excluding Turkish citizens living abroad).…

In 2022, Russia took the second place in terms of tourist flow to the Mugla province in Turkey, where the resorts of the Aegean Sea are located. The number of Russian tourists has grown by 26% compared to 2021, according to statistics from the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Turkish province.

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The number of Russian tourists in Spain, at least judging by the number of visas issued there, has tripled despite all the sanctions, including the ban on flights from Russia to the EU. Such statistics were cited by the Western news agency Bloomberg, referring to data from the Spanish Foreign Ministry.

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Another Turkish ski resort announced its hope almost exclusively on Russian tourists. We are talking about the resort of Erzurum Palandoken. The resort authorities announced a charter program from Russia, which started on December 29 and will last until March 15.

During all this time, the…

Turkish carrier Pegasus Airlines will take Russian tourists to the ski resorts in Turkey. The airline promises 5 flights a week from Moscow to the ski resort of Kayseri and 3 more flights to Erzurum in the winter season. The tour operator Coral Travel will load the flight. The relevant information…

Russian tourists in the winter season will be offered ski tours to the Turkish resorts of Erciyes, Erzurum and Palandoken. The transportation will be carried out by Pegasus Airlines by order of the tour operator Coral Travel, according to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR).

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The Turkish media reported on the successful start of Pegas Touristik tours to Istanbul. We are talking about the launch of regular flights Moscow-Istanbul of the airline Ikar. The first flight took off on November 10.

Flights are operated from Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) to Istanbul…

According to the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the total number of foreign tourists in the country in January-September 2022 almost doubled compared to the same period last year and exceeded 34,8 million.

Germany, Russia and the UK were the countries that sent the most visitors…

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.

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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…