According to Monaco statistic department of Tourism and Congresses, the number of nights booked by Russians during the period from January 2019 is 42 264 and that is 5,4% more than in 2018. So, Russia is on the fifth place according to tourists’ number in Monaco after France, Great Britain, Italy…
On October 1, Wizz Air has launched two routes from its London Luton base to the Russian cities of Moscow and St Petersburg.
From the beggining of October, the carrier is the sole British airline directly connecting passengers from London to St. Petersburg, the cultural capital of Russia that…
As Iceland monitor portal reports, over the eight months of 2019, Iceland was visited by almost 1,4 million foreign tourists - 13% less than in the same period of the last year. The decline in tourist flow the authorities of the island state connect with the bankruptcy of the Icelandic carrier Wow…
According to Inessa Korotkova, the head of the national office for tourism development in France (Atout France), Russian skiers and snowboarders spent about 200 thousand nights at the resorts of the French Alps last winter season. As Inessa Korotkova underlined, the skiing region Three Valleys, where…
Pobeda low coast air company has started the air tickets sale from Moscow to Innsbruck (Austria). The flights will start at 28.12.2019 till 18.01.2020 once a week. 14.10.2019 one can buy the ticket for the first flight for 16 000 rubles (227 euro) with baggage + 3 000 rubles (43 euro) for ski equipment.…
According to the National Tourism Administration of the country, Georgia in September was visited by 147,4 thousand tourists from Russia, which is 20,6% less than a year earlier.
Nevertheless, according to the Administration, the Russians retained their leadership in the number of foreign…
According to Anton Morozov, a member of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs, there are no sufficient security guarantees for Russian tourists in Georgia and therefore there are no reasons for resuming flights there. He announced this, commenting the statement of Georgian Foreign Minister David…
For the first 9 months of 2019 the Russian tourist flow to Antalya increased by 15% in annual terms. This year every third holidaymaker on the Antalya beaches was from Russia.
According to the data of airports of Antalya and Gazipasa, from January to September 2019, more than 13 million foreign…
The Coral Travel assortment includes sightseeing tours to Armenia. A weekend with a visit to Yerevan, Lake Sevan, ancient monasteries and a tasting of dishes of Armenian cuisine will cost only 262 Euros per person.
According to Alena Gromova, the Coral Travel Domestic Market Director, today…
Tour operators have to respond to high demand with additional flights. For example, Pegas Touristik added additional boards to the existing flight program in Antalya and launched airplanes with a higher capacity from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Belgorod, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Mineralnye Vody…
Armenia and Azerbaijan, where tour operators saw a noticeable increase, benefited from the closure of Georgia for Russian tourists. Also, Turkey, the Black Sea coast of Russia and Abkhazia note an increase of the Russian tourist flow. This assessment was voiced at a press conference by the executive…
Russian tourist flow to Croatia this year shows a positive trend, the demand exceeds the last year’s figures. In many ways, paradoxically, the growth of Croatia was provided by Turkey. This was stated by Raiko Ruzicka, the head of the representative office of tourism of the Republic of Croatia in…
During the upcoming New Year and Christmas holidays, Russian tourists will be able to go to the Baltic States by charter railway tours. According to the tour operator’s press service, the Intourist launches sightseeing tours to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania for the New Year and Christmas holidays.…
Tour packages for the summer season of 2020 with a flight to the airport of Girona (Catalonia, Spain) are displayed on the website of the tour operator Tui Russia. A flight to Girona will allow passengers to save money and time, compared to arriving in Barcelona.
According to Tui Russia, the…
Siberia Airlines (flying under S7 Airlines brand) plans to open direct regular flights from Moscow to Milan from December 25, 2019 on the boards of Airbus A320. The flights will be operated up to seven times per week. The flights will begin simultaneously with the start of the ski season, the report…
Tours to the ski resorts of Bulgaria can now be purchased from 70 thousand Rubles (969 Euros) for two persons: until the end of November discounts for accommodation here reach 20-25%. The tour operator Intourist will fly to Bulgaria on daily scheduled flights of Aeroflot and Bulgaria Air. The promotion…
According to the data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) of Spain, in January-July 2019, 758 200 Russian tourists visited Spain, which is 11,2% higher than the figure for the same period a year earlier. Totally, over 7 months, 48 million foreign tourists visited Spain, which is 1,9% more…
According to Irina Tyurina, the spokeswoman of the Russian Union of Travel Industry, the interest of Russian tourists in tours to France in the summer 2019 has significantly grown, tour operators reported about 10-40% increase in sales of tours compared to the same period last year. "Summer sales…
According to the resort’s Tourism Chamber, the number of foreign tourists at the popular Bulgarian resort of Burgas declined last summer by 13,7%, the Russian tourists’ flow decreased by 25%. The number of tourists from Germany decreased even more noticeably - by 50%. “Almost 400 thousand foreign…
Several tour operators in Russia noted the growth of interest to early booking to Greece. Thus Alexander Tsandekidi Mouzenidis Travel TO CEO reported about 700 persons booked for summer season 2020. And that is 20 times more than the same period of the last year. Each year more tourists are booking…
