“About 1.1 million tourists from Russia rested in Antalya in January-June 2017, which is 44 times more than in the same period of the last year and 24% higher than the tourist flow in the same months of 2015”, - according to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia ATOR) with reference to the administration of the Turkish resort. "In total, 2.8 million foreign tourists visited the resort in January-June 2017, 1.1 million people of which were Russian citizens". - the report said.

“In May 2017, 608.4 thousand tourists from Russia visited Turkey, which is 1384% more than in the same month a year ago”, - according to statistics released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey. In May 2016, only 41 thousand Russians visited Turkey. At the same time, the figures for 2017 exceeded the results of May 2015 too - (501.1 thousand).

The airline Atlasglobal began to fly from Ekaterinburg to Antalya by the order of NTK Intourist tour operator. As reported NTK Intourist, the flights to Turkey will be performed three times a week (Monday, Thursday, Sunday). The capacity of Airbus A321 is 216 seats. In addition, the tour operator consolidated transportation by Atlasglobal from the other Russian cities, including Kazan (11 flights a week), Samara, Mineral Waters, etc.

In Antalya, according to the results of the year, the growth of the inсcoming tourist traffic is expected by more than a quarter, from Russia 2.6 million people are waiting in the region”, - reported Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) with reference to the Antalya tourism council.

“Turkish low cost Pegasus Airlines has launched regular flights on the route Istanbul-Nizhny Novgorod”, - said the press service of Nizhny Novgorod airport. The flight program from Nizhny Novgorod airport started on June 21 by Boeing-737-800. The flights are scheduled to be performed three times a week.

“Since June 20 Turkish low-coster Pegasus Airlines will launch direct scheduled flights between Samara and Istanbul”, - informed the press service of the international airport Kurumoch. The airline will fly from Samara to Istanbul's Sabiha airport three times a week: on Tuesdays at 5:45, on Fridays and Sundays at 5:35.

“About 505.000 Russians came to Antalya in May. It’s almost half of the total number of foreign tourists”, - according to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) with reference to the data of resort’s administration. "In May, Antalya was visited by more than a million foreign tourists, while every second foreign visitor was from Russia.

“In April 2017 the tourist flow from Russia to Turkey exceeded the last year's figure by almost six times”, - according to statistics released by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey. In April 2017, 181.800 Russians visited Turkey. A year ago - in the same month - the tourist flow was only 31 thousand people.

“The number of tourists who visited Antalya resort since the beginning of 2017 increased by 60% against the last year”, - said the Governor of the province Munir Karaloglu. Representatives of the tourism business of Turkey, in particular, are noting the restoration of demand from the Russian travelers.

“The Turkish airline AtlasGlobal plans to launch regular Krasnodar-Istanbul flight since June 2, 2017”, - said the press service of the company "BasEl Aero", managing the airports of the Krasnodar Region. Flights will be performed 2 times a week - on Fridays and Sundays - by A320 aircraft. Krasnodar now is in the list of 10 cities in Russia, where AtlasGlobal airline performs its flight program in 2017.

In coming summer season already more than 50% of the volume of air transportation to Turkey is based on the regular flights. A new order has been published on the website of Rosaviatsiya on permission of scheduled and charter flights for air carriers. According to the text of the document, Royal Flight, Icarus and North Wind airlines received new permits for regular flights to Turkey.

“In April the number of Russian tourists who visited Antalya in frame of package tours increased 7.5 times in comparison with the last year”, - reported the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) on Thursday with reference to the data of the Tourism council of Antalya Province.

Turkey does not see and does not expect any problems with either charter or regular flights from Russia to the resorts of the country. Moreover, Russia and Turkey are now negotiating on expansion of the geography of air transportation to Turkey from Russian regions. The number of flights will also increase.

“58,600 Russians visited Turkey in March, which is 145% more than a year earlier”, - according to the data of Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey. In March 2016, the country was visited by 23.9 thousand Russians and a year earlier - 58.3 thousand. Thus, the flow from Russia in 2017 exceeded the level of two years ago, before the crisis.

“Rosaviatsia will recall its warning on a possible restriction of charter flights to Turkey”, - said the Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich on Wednesday. "We have no restrictions there. We see that the situation in Turkey after the referendum is stable normal, the possible risks are gradually decreasing, so the warning will be recall", - underlined A. Dvorkovich.

“Turkey will become the locomotive of growth of outcoming tourism market. The tour operator NTK Intourist plans to send more than 500 thousand tourists to this country”, - said the General Director of the company Victor Topolkaraev.

“In the last week of April the Turkish hotels give significant discounts for accommodation during May holidays. The volume of transportation is enough and those, who still wish to buy a tour, may do it for very cheap price”, - market participants say. The information, that from the third week of April the Turkish hotels widely give special offers for May holidays, was confirmed at once by several sources on the market.

“The Turkish airline Atlasglobal plans to open direct flights on the route Nizhny Novgorod - Istanbul from May”, - informed the press release of the Nizhniy Novgorod airport "Strigino". The first regular flight from Nizhny Novgorod to Istanbul Ataturk Airport is scheduled for May 30.

“Turkish Airlines plans to increase its passenger traffic in Russia to 1 million passengers in 2017”, - said the Deputy director of Turkish airline Ahmet Olmushtur at a press conference at Samara airport Kurumoch. "In 2016, the passenger flow of the airline in Russia has decreased up to 700 thousand.

“The rates of bookings Turkey’s resorts fell by a third after reports of a possible suspension of charters flights to the country”, - said the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Tyurina. "There are no refusals from the tours. According to one of the major tour operators, they have no more than 60 calls per 100,000 of sold tours with the question "what happed?”. However, the rate of bookings of Turkey resorts has greatly lowered - at least by 30% ", - ascertained I.Tyurina.

“The Russian airlines are notified of a possible suspension of charter flights to Turkey”, - said Interfax agency an informed source. "A warning has been received about the possibility of temporary suspension of the charter flights of Russian airlines to Turkey's airports", - added the source.

“The Russian tourists visited Turkey much more actively in February 2017 than a year ago: the tourist flow has increased by 95.6% (39.26 thousand) against the same month of the last year”, - according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the country. However, the total number of foreign tourists who visited Turkey in February decreased by 6.4% - from 1.24 million to 1.15 million. Thus, the tourists flow is declining during last 19 months due to potential security problems and fears, related to the policy of Turkey. Earlier in March, Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey Hussein Yayman said that Turkey plans to host 5 million Russian tourists in 2017. One of the Europe's largest tour operators Thomas Cook Group notes the gradual recovery of demand for travel to Turkey.

“Turkey in 2017 will continue to subsidize charters with Russian tourists”, - said the Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey Husein Yayman. "As in the previous three years, Turkey will continue to support companies sending charter flights with tourists.

“International airport "Chelyabinsk" has accorded a regular flights program Istanbul - Chelyabinsk with the low cost Turkish “Onur Air”, which will be performed from April 30 till the end of October this year”, - reported the Commercial director of "Chelyabinsk Airlines" Ksenia Agafonova

“Turkish Airlines will stop flights to Istanbul from Astrakhan since March 25”, said in the company. "On March 24, 25 we will perform the last flight from Astrakhan and the company closes its office in this airport. Flights terminated due to non-profitability", - added the employee of the company.