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.

Biblio Globus and Intourist declare continuation of operation, independently from Thomas Cook Uk

in the upcoming winter season an extensive flight program will be on the Israeli destination. The total maximum number of charter and scheduled flights in winter will reach 81 airplanes per week, including 15 weekly flights to Eilat. “For the first time, it will be possible to fly from Moscow to Eilat 4 times a week. Last season, the frequency of flights was twice a week. For the first time, a regular flight will fly from Russia to Eilat. Also, the low-cost airline Pobeda will operate on the route

According to available information, two more cities will be added to the list of the current 6 cities of departure to Istanbul, one of them is Adler (Sochi) airport. The second is Kurumoch airport, serving the cities of Samara and Togliatti.

The flights to Cuba are planned by 5 main Russian tour operators. They have chosen 6 different airports of Cuba as arrival points for the tourists. This wide spectrum of proposals will be an attractive moment for them. Some programs are planned for the whole year round. The table below shows the details of all the programs published by tour operators till now.

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 vacation packages. 

We are going to speak about the summer plans of all the TOs for summer 2019 in Greece.

“Thomas Cook buys Biblio-Globus tour operator, which is one of the five largest tour operators in Russia,” reports the Turkish edition TurizmGüncel, citing its sources in the industry. 

“The board of directors of Intourist-Thomas Cook joint venture has decided to consolidate all types of tour operator activity in one company - Intourist Tour Operator”, - reported the press service of the company. "The rapid growth of volumes in the segments of incoming, out coming and internal tourism requires fundamentally new organizational and technological solutions.

“Intourist Tour Operator expects to send 1.2 million Russians, including 100,000 tourists from Ufa city and Bashkortostan region, for the rest in Russia and abroad in 2018”, - said Alexander Musikhin the Deputy General Director of the company. According to him, Crimea, Sochi, Marmaris and Antalya (Turkey), Czech Republic, Greece, as well as St. Petersburg, Kazan, and Moscow will become the main recreation destinations for Bashkortostan residents.

“Tour operator NTK Intourist plans to create its own air fleet next season”, - said General Director of the company Viktor Topolkaraev. "We took this decision last year, but did not have time to perform it. The situation with VIM-Avia showed the rightness of such measure: a large tour operator must have its own air transportation.

The Board of Directors of “Intourist" appointed Maxim Horoshenkov to the position of the President of the company on January 20. Previously, he held the position of General Director of JSC "SG-Trading".