The new type of b2b action announced today by Coral Travel in their daily newsletter is similar to KPI strategy and allows tour operator to set goals and travel agent to get bonuses by reaching them. We accumulated the most interesting ideas of this action.

On March 9, Coral Travel held the Spring-Summer 2021 workshop at the Hyatt Regency Petrovsky Park hotel in Moscow. It was the first large-scale event of the company since the beginning of the pandemic. Everybody was eager to communicate not on-line, but face to face.

Coral Travel charter program to Zanzibar from Yekaterinburg started on February 2. Flights are operated by Royal Flight once every 10 days by Boeing 767-300.

The first charter flight of Royal Flight after the resumption of air traffic has landed on Zanzibar Island in Tanzania.

Rosaviatsia has returned to Ufa airport the opportunity to serve international flights. Nowadays, the route network to foreign countries from Ufa is still limited by Turkey. Also, direct flights from Ufa to Zanzibar are planned to be performed since November.

Leading federal tour operators continue to expand their flight programs as the number of cities has been restored for abroad flights.

More than 270 hotels on the Antalya coast of Turkey are already ready to host Russian tourists, the list is constantly expanding.

The leading Russian tour operators have formed flight programs to Turkey on the basis of regular and charter flights.

Tour operators shared their plans on flight programs to Cyprus for August and September.

Two leading tour operators, Coral Travel and Sunmar, have fulfilled the recommendation of the Federal Tourism Agency and stopped the tours with departure dates from March 23 to April 20.

The demand for Italian ski resorts this year met all the expectations of tour operators. In December, more than 60% of tour packages planned for the winter season was sold. The popularity of the destination among Russian tourists-skiers has grown by 25-30%.

In 2019, there was a slight increase in the volume of Russian tourist flow in Mauritius. Starting 2020, tour operators began to receive special offers from Mauritius hotels with discounts of 20-35%.

The current winter season in Goa, according to experts, is similar to the season in 2019. However, the demand for destination this winter season is growing mainly due to regional tourists - tour operators offer a very budget tours.

Most hotels in Bulgaria have kept prices for the Russian market at the level of last year. The leading market players with varying degrees of optimism evaluate the first results of early booking tours to Bulgaria.

Antalya continues to sum up the tourist results of the past year. Experts draw attention to the fact that the tourist destination in 2019 did not reach the target of 16 million tourists.

The demand for holidays in Tunisia among organized Russian tourists increased in 2019, and for some travel agencies, the destination accounts up to 20% of total sales.

Russian tourists have bought 80-90% of ski tours to Turkey for the coming winter.

Following the results of 2019 Coral Travel tour operator was recognized as the “Leader in the volume of sales of tours from Russia”. This season, Coral Travel became the only Russian tour operator that arranged direct flights to Abu Dhabi from Moscow.

In annual terms, the total volume of Russian citizens in Bahrain increased by almost 2 times, and the number of trips with tourism purposes increased by 2,2 times. Such positive dynamics is connected with the expansion of the volume of flight programs of federal tour operators and the appearance of new leading players.

Pegas Touristik and Coral Travel tour operators will optimize the flight programs to Dubai from Saratov ahead of schedule. On the websites of suppliers the last available flight to Dubai from Saratov was dated January 2.

The demand for the Aegean coast among Russians this year has increased significantly and continues to grow. The data of Russian tour operators convincingly indicate a certain diversification of the dynamics of Russian tourist demand of Turkey.

The leading winter destinations show a significant increase in sales on the stage of early booking. The growth of the demand in tours to the UAE, Thailand, Vietnam and India is very significant this year.

Russian tourists are changing their mind about summer holidays. We used to consider July and August the highest points of summer, but now the high request is stable from May to October. That was the topic of experts’ conversations during the business program of traditional Coral Travel autumn award event-Starway 2019.

Russian tourists most often buy winter tours on early booking program in Thailand, the UAE and Vietnam. Also the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Cuba are among the leading destinations for Russians in the winter season.

The minimum prices for holiday tours to India are comparable to the cost of air tickets to the destination. Experts see the reason of the situation in the specifics of India as a tourist destination.