Azur Air by order of Anex Tour will launch a new charter flight from Novosibirsk to Barcelona.

In 2019 European routes account for about 8% of all tickets sold by Tutu.ru in December. The number of travelers, who decided to go to Europe for the holidays at the beginning of December, fell by 4%.

ATOR has announced preliminary results of 2019 based on the statistics for the three quarters of this year.

Early sales confirm increased tourist flow to Spain. Operators note an increase in demand for original and exclusive tours, including the off-season dates.

Experts explain the increase in demand for Tenerife by a combination of a number of factors that this year stimulate an increase of interest. Among them are the year-round season and the availability of tour operators’ blocks of seats on regular flights.

The list of popular destinations for winter holidays from Tez Tour includes China, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Thailand, Egypt, Spain, Austria, Italy and Andorra.

The tour operator Tui Russia has analyzed the demand for the New Year holidays and compiled a rating of tourist destinations where Russians plan to travel with their children.

About 80 thousand Russian tourists annually come to Tenerife, which is just over 1% of the total foreign tourist flow.

The volume of winter transportation to Barcelona this year increased a little compared to last year. The growth amounted to about 150 seats per week, or 15–20%. With such volumes of transportation any changes in flight programs are not expected, as the demand for the destination has grown slightly.

Tui started sales of tour packages for the summer season of 2020 with a flight to the airport of Girona (Catalonia, Spain). The flight to Girona will be carried out by charter flights of Ural Airlines.

In the autumn the demand for European destinations such as Greece, Italy and Bulgaria has grown. The demand for autumn holidays in 2019 increased by 26% compared to last year.

Over January-July 2019, 758,2 thousand Russian tourists visited Spain, which is 11,2% higher than the figure for the same period a year earlier.

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In January-June 2019, the tourist flow from Russia to Spain grew by 13,2%. In the summer season, sales of tours to this country show double-digit dynamics. Tour operators connect this fact both with stability of the exchange rate in the first two summer months and the expansion of the range of their own tour product.

In the middle of last month, Anex Tour opened sales for the winter season in Spain and Andorra. Due to the low prices, the destination is in high demand at the stage of early sales.

More and more Russian travelers are choosing high-level hotels for the autumn season. This is the conclusion made by the experts of Tez Tour after analysis of bookings on more than 30 destinations for dates from September to mid-October 2019. 

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). 

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On May 25, the first charter flight of TUI tour operator took place on the route Moscow - Girona (Spain). The flight program will be performed from Domodedovo on the wings of Ural Airlines on Wednesdays and Saturdays until September 21. Such a frequency of departures will allow to form tours of any duration - from 4 to 21 nights. 

At the end of 2018, Spain was visited by 3222,795 guests from Russia, almost 90% of them came with tourist purposes. The increase amounted to 6.3% compared with 2017. The figures of the National Institute of Statistics of Spain, which published the tourism department of the Spanish embassy in Moscow, include the total number of Russian citizens visiting Spain – these are holders of multiple-entry visas, children traveling with their parents, and the Russians who came from other countries. 

The first two months of 2019 showed an increase in tourist traffic from Russia to Tenerife. In January, the number of arrivals increased by 54.8% compared with the same month of 2018 and reached 5,757. In February 10638 Russian tourists went to Tenerife, which is 60% more than in February last year. 

In February 2019, the total flow of tourists from all over the world to Tenerife increased by 6%. The growth rate of Russian tourist traffic exceeds the average level and amounted to 23% during the winter months. Such information was presented by Visit Tenerife.