Nord wind has started booking for the new destination Nizhnekamsk-Istanbul. The air company will connect airport Begishevo (Nizhnekamsk, the population of 239 000 people) with Istanbul starting from October, 27 for the whole autumn-winter season 2019/2020. The lowest round trip ticket price is 17…
In the winter season 2019/20 the number of charters to Turkey will increase significantly: the winter tours to Antalya from 10 cities of Russia have become available in the booking system of Intourist tour operator. Considerable increase of transportation on the destination may reduce the prices of…
On August 1, a visa center of Lithuania was opened in Kaliningrad, which is serviced by VFS Global, according to the the press service of the company. Another Lithuanian visa center in the region will be opened in Sovetsk at the end of August this year. Visa centres apply a service fee (15.9 euros) additionally…
Intourist tour operator has launched sales of tours to Poland. “On the Russian market our experts have a number of reasons to see prospects for the Polish destination. There are extensive opportunities for broad recreation for affordable price. The beaches of the Baltic Sea, treatment in mineral springs,…
From August 15, Royal Flight will resume charter flights from Kaluga International Airport to Antalya in Turkey. This information is provided by the press service of the regional government. The agreement was reached at a working meeting between the region’s governor, Anatoly Artamonov and the general…
According to TBG United Network Managing Company director Oleg Mel’nikov the volume of the sales is rather identical in comparison to the last year, but the interest to the new year period flights is evident: “Now we see the increase of requests for the new year dates on Antalya coastline and for…
In January-June 2019, 574.2 thousand Russian tourists visited Spain, which is 13.2% higher than the figure for the same period a year earlier, according to the data of the country's National Institute of Statistics (INE).
The total tourist flow in the first half of the year grew by 2,8%…
The Russians tasted summer Istanbul. In the summer the Turkish metropolis is increasingly positioned as a destination for a short, but full-scaled vacation, where you can find not only excursion programs and shopping, but also a beach.
According to Turkish statistics, for the first 5 months…
Russian tourists flow continues to hold the leading position in Turkey. In the first 6 months of 2019, 2.7 million of Russian tourists visited Turkey, which is almost equivalent to the total volume of tourists from the two European countries - Germany and the United Kingdom.
The tourist authorities of Antalya note the daily records of the arrivals of tourists, and the Russian tourist market shows the most significant results. Thus, according to Hürriyet Daily News, from January to July 18, Antalya hosted totally 6.9 million foreign tourists. This is an increase of 16%.
British hoteliers have said that this year the demand for expensive accommodation in England has increased from Russian tourists. Tour operators, working on the destination, confirm: tourists want more “premium” here.
The Russian tourist flow to Britain is stable this year: both sightseeing…
In Malta the growth trend, recorded in the Russian tourist traffic (+ 26.5%), is actual for the current year. Tour operators acting on the destination expect that the increase in the number of tourists will be even greater.
According to the Central Statistical Bureau of Malta, for the first…
Starting September 1, 2019, Finland will expand the list of documents required for the Russians to obtain a visa. This was reported by the Finnish Foreign Ministry on its website. To obtain a visa to Finland, the Russians will need to provide the same documents which are required to obtain Schengen…
Starting from August 2, Ural Airlines launches charter flights on the route Perm — Antalya. This information was provided by the press service of Perm International Airport. The flights will be performed on Fridays on Airbus A321 with a capacity of 200 passengers. The flight time is 4.5 hours. Departure…
According to the Russian understanding a hotel is a complex of accommodation services, which manly includes a room itself and some minimum services like making beds and cleaning a room and WC facilities. Generally this interpretation corresponds with the WTO definition of a hotel. Still the strong…
2019 summer statistic looks not optimistic for Greece, at least from Russia. According to Heraklion airport information, the number of tourists’ arrivals is 20% lower than during the same period in 2018. Anex Tour has planned less charters to Crete from Moscow from five to three weekly, having the…
Moscow airport Domodedovo and Smart Avia air company inform about the regular flight on the route: Moscow-Yerevan-Moscow. This flight will be fulfilled three times a week on Monday, Friday and Sunday.
In 2019 the request on Armenian capital flights increased. During January-June period…
Despite stark warnings for Russian tourists from their home country about safety issues in Georgia, following anti-Russian protests in Tbilisi, visitors in the Caucasus country remain largely unfazed by the situation.
The flare-up in relations began when Georgian protesters tried to storm…
Russia’s national carrier Aeroflot and two other airlines from the country have canceled several flights to and from Czech on Tuesday after the country’s Transport Ministry withdrew permits for the flights, the BBC in Russia reported. The Russian airlines have limited air traffic between Prague and…
