Early sales confirm increased tourist flow to Spain. Operators note an increase in demand for original and exclusive tours, including the off-season dates. According to the Russian Border Service, for 9 months Spain hosted about 693 000 Russian tourists, which is 5,4% more than in the same period…
On December 28 will be the first flight of Ural Airlines from Moscow to Budapest, according to a press release from the company. The carrier will fly to the capital of Hungary from Zhukovsky Airport three times a week.
The tour operator Vedi Group highly evaluates the new route. So, according…
According to expert forecasts, by the end of 2019, the Russian tourist flow to France will grow by at least 10% in annual terms. Tour operators note greater dynamics of sales in one of the most popular European destinations among Russians.
As Inessa Korotkova, the director of the representative…
The ATOR analytical service has examined the sales statistics of the federal travel agency network “1001 Tours” and found out which hotels in Turkey are most popular for the New Year holidays-2020 and how much the tours cost there. Among the favorites of the Russians are both budget and deluxe hotels.
Tour operators started early booking of tours to Croatia and Montenegro for the summer of 2020. Paks, Tui Russia, Russian Express and Anex Tour opened early sales of tours to Croatia. According to tour operators, the early booking action on the destination will last until the end of March 2020. At…
For 9 months of this year, the tourist flow from Russia to Montenegro grew by 22,6% and amounted to more than 280 thousand trips. Tour operators confirm the trend. It is clear that the main growth share occurred in the summer season. This year the tour…
I love talking to travelers. This October, on the way from Athens to Moscow my flight mate was a man of about my age. During four-hour flight I found out that Maxim and his friends rented a small yacht in Kos harbour. The team travelled about three weeks from one Greek island to another, enjoying…
Turkey released tourist statistics for 10 months of 2019. Russia confidently tops this rating both in the total number of tourist arrivals and in the dynamics of growth among the countries included in the TOP-5. According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, in January-October 2019, 40,7…
A decision on lifting an ongoing Russian ban on flights to and from Georgia should not be expected by the end of the year, Russian upper house lawmaker Grigory Karasin said Thursday after a meeting with Georgian special representative Zurab Abashidze in Prague, according to RIA Novosti.
Representatives…
Tour operators confirm that the demand for the Aegean coast among Russians this year has increased significantly and continues to grow.
The beach season on the Aegean coast of Turkey almost ended in October (resorts Dalaman, Fethiye, Oludeniz, Marmaris, Bodrum, Izmir, Kusadasi, Didim, Cesme)…
Charters in Brindisi (Puglia) are the first in the history of Russian tourism in Italy - the summer charter program in Puglia will become an exclusive product of Tui Russia. The company has already opened the sale of tours on charters to Puglia for the summer of 2020 - discounts on early bookings…
60 new routes will appear for travelers in the low season as a part of the project. St. Petersburg and the Finnish Saimaa region together create the “Tourism Corridor” project. The project includes at least 60 routes connecting the Northern capital and the Finnish cities of Lappeenranta, Imatra, Savonlinna…
2,68 million tourists visited Azerbaijan in January-October, which is almost 11% more than for the same period last year, the country's State Tourism Agency (GAT) told. The largest tourist flow was from Russia and Georgia.
Over 10 months, 798 thousand Russians visited Azerbaijan: an increase…
Judging by the bookings, this winter at the ski resorts of Bulgaria up to 60% of holidaymakers will be tourists from neighboring countries. Growth is also expected in some major source markets. This was stated by the Minister of Tourism of the country Nikolina Angelkova at a meeting with the tourist…
Russian airlines are looking for compensation from the government after the Kremlin’s ban on direct flights to Georgia cost them a combined 3.2 billion rubles ($50 million).
President Vladimir Putin ordered a temporary ban of passenger flights from Russia to Georgia this summer following an…
Russian tour operators started early booking of tours to Cyprus for the summer season of 2020. The first thing market participants are talking about when commenting on the early booking of Cyprus is that island hoteliers maintain their previous prices for the 2020 season without a significant increase.…
Tour operators record an increase in demand for tours to Istanbul this winter season. According to Istanbul authorities, for the first 10 months of 2019 more than 11 million foreign tourists visited the city. Unlike the resort of Antalya, Russian tourists in Istanbul are not leaders, but are among…
As the participants of the tourist market told, New Year's celebration in the Czech capital is losing its actuality among Russian tourists. “There is no such high demand as before, when we sent 600 people for the New Year's dates. So, we don’t offer the New Year itself,” says Elena Popova, the general…
Experts explain the increase in demand by a combination of a number of factors that this year stimulate an increase of interest in Tenerife. Among them are the year-round season and the availability of tour operators’ blocks of seats on regular flights. Prices for tours start from 46 thousand Rubles…
According to the statistics of the Border Service of the Russian Federation, for the nine months of 2019, 309,1 thousand trips were made from Russia to Bulgaria with the purpose of tourism, which is 12% less than the same time a year earlier. The country is on the twelfth position in the ranking of…
