The decision to suspend the visaless regime with Turkey is not critical for the Russian tour industry, the executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia, Maya Lomidze, has told TASS. "As far as outbound tourism is concerned, this decision is not critical at all. Tours are not being sold at the moment. It’s an off-season there," Lomidze said.

Turkey's annual revenues from Russian tourists stood at $10 bln, Head of the Federal Agency for Tourism (Rostourism) Oleg Safonov said on Thursday. "More than 4.400 mln Russian tourists used to visit Turkey each year while the country's annual revenues from them stood at around $10 bln," Safonov said, adding that the country will "obviously not be receiving those funds anymore."

Pegas Touristik, one of Russia’s largest tour operators, has cancelled all holiday packages to Turkey until December 29, its general director said on Wednesday. "We have currently suspended sales to the Turkish Republic. All tour packages sold until December 29 have been cancelled. Tourists who purchased these packages will be invited to rebook their tours to other destinations," Anna Podgornaya told Rossiya-24 TV channel. The move follows downing of a Russian Su-24 bomber by a Turkish F-16 fighter jet on Tuesday morning.

Gloria Hotels has launched a new website combining all seven Gloria Hotels group properties under one domain. The easy-to-use website provides all the information and functionality needed to book a room, dinner, a celebration or wedding in English, Arabic, Russian, German and Chinese languages.

Reducing number of Russian tourists visiting the Turkish province of Antalya, will lead to a loss of $ 5 billion by the end of 2015, reports on the results of 2015, according to BGN News. At the same time Turkey's overall revenue losses in the tourism sector could reach $ 10 billion. According to the publication, in the first nine months of this year the number of tourists from Russia to Antalya decreased by 25% compared to last year.

Subsidizing of charter flights from Russia to the Turkish side is the actual measure, but it does not help to keep the flow of tourists, if the exchange rate will continue to fall, Russian tour operators have reported to ATOR (Assosiation of Tour Operators of Russia)". Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey reported that it will pay to Russian tour operators $ 6 thousand for each charter flight, from 15 September to 30 November, to support the tourism flow.

To support tourists' flow from Russia, Turkey will pay to the Russian tour operators $ 6 thousand for each charter flight from Russia from September 15 to November 30, according to the Turkish edition of Daily Sabah. According to the publication referring to the Culture and Tourism Minister of the country Omer Chalikov, support will be provided not only to Russian tour companies, but also to tour operators of the CIS countries and Iran.

In June, Turkey was visited by 19% less Russians than the same period in 2014, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey. 652.7 thousand Russian tourists came to the country in June 2015 in comparison to 805.3 thousand Russians in June 2014.

In summer 2015, price for tours to Turkey decreased by 27% due to special offers from hotels, but the demand is still about a third lower than last year, Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) said, referring to tour operators. In the first summer months, tour operators estimate the decline of sales of tours to Turkey by 25-30% .

Turkish province of Antalya can lose $ 1.5 billion due to the decline of tourists, primarily from Russia, Kemer Gözcü said, citing the head of the Chamber of Commerce of Antalya Davut Cetin.

This summer, clients of TUI Russia will be able to use free Wi-Fi Internet during transfers and excursions in Turkey. From May 2015, all branded buses of the tour operator will be equipped with wireless internet access, the press department if TUI Russia reported. According to a study of GfK, Wi-Fi is one of the most important value-added services on vacation for the Russians.

Arrivals from Russia to Turkey, which have decreased in the first quarter of this year, in the summer return to last year's figures, the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Turina reported, referring to the data of tour operators.

On 3-rd of April 2015, the Embassy of Turkey in Russia published the news release about subsidies to tour operators for charter flights from Russia. The amount of 6 000 Us dollars will be paid for each charter flight from Russia to Turkey operated from 1-st of April till 31-st of May 2015. If the flight is organized by several tour operators, the money will be shared among them as the proportion of number of passengers.

According to Russian State Statistical Service (Rosstat), the Russians made 45 million 889 thousand trips abroad in 2014, which is 15% less than in 2013. 17 million 611.6 thousand of those trips were made with tourism purposes. Despite the very depressing situation in the Russian travel sector, the drop in the outbound tourist flow amounted to just 4% - the statistics shows.

Azur Air has announced the expansion of its route network in the 2019/2020 autumn-winter schedule, including from Russian regions. The carrier will also increase the intensity of flights to its traditional destinations.