It will be possible for tourists to fly to the Dominican Republic (with change in Antalya) for the New Year with the tour operator Anex Tour. But tours are available with a departure not only from Moscow, but also from Yekaterinburg.

The tour operator Intourist will offer package tours to the Dominican Republic with a flight through Antalya. The flight program departing from Moscow on the route Moscow-Antalya-La Romana starts on October 17.

Nowadays, tours to the Caribbean are being sold, for example, by Anex Tour (Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic), Coral Travel (Mexico, Dominican Republic), Tez Tour (Venezuela), Kmp Group (Mexico and Dominican Republic).

The closure of the airspace of the United States will jeopardize the evacuation of Russian tourists from the Caribbean, according to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia.

The demand for foreign holidays during the May holidays is still behind the pre-Covid 2019 period by about 10%. The most popular destination for Russian tourists during this period is Turkey.

Egypt became the leader of the winter season 2021-2022 among organized tourists. At the same time, Russian resorts were in the second place, displacing Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

The Dominican Republic is in the TOP-3 in terms of demand in Russia. At the end of 2021, Russia for the first time is in the second place in the ranking of the source markets for this country.

The assortment of the tour operator Panteon has been replenished with a new popular destination - the Dominican Republic. The tours are operated on regular Aeroflot flights.

In sales of the November holidays’ tours Egypt was in the first place. Turkey was in the second place. The third place was taken by the UAE. Also, the Dominican Republic, Maldives, Cuba, Mexico, Hungary and Cyprus are in high demand.

The Russian tourist flow to the Dominican Republic in September exceeded the volumes of the pre-pandemic 2019. Moreover, Russia has shown the best figures in terms of tourist flow among all European countries.

From the end of October, the tour operator Coral Travel will increase the number of flights to the Dominican Republic from Moscow, as well as add departures from five Russian cities to them.

On October 5, the first charter flight with tourists from the tour operator Anex Tour to the Dominican Republic departed from the Ufa international airport. This is the first transatlantic flight in history for Ufa airport.

Tour operator Pegas Touristik adds flights from six more cities in Russia to the previously announced flights from Moscow to Punta Cana, Puerto Plata and Samana. In total, direct flights to the Dominican Republic from the beginning of autumn will be available for residents of 7 regions of Russia.

The tour operator Anex Tour increases the volume of air traffic to the Dominican Republic from Moscow and also expands the geography of the cities of departure.

Tours for the autumn season, 2021, according to the observations of the tourist experts, are quite in demand. In general, the TOP-10 most popular foreign destinations for the autumn season this year, as per the data of tour operators, includes Turkey, UAE, Maldives, Greece, Cuba, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Abkhazia and Croatia.

The Russian anti-coronavirus crisis center said that restrictions on regular and charter flight travel from Russia to the number of abroad destinations will be lifted on August 27.

On Monday, August 9, Anex Tour tourists flew by the first Azur air flight to La Romana from Moscow. In the future, Azur air flights from Moscow to La Romana will be operated 3 times a week.

On July 23, the Coronavirus Operational Headquarters announced the opening of new routes. Flights to Bahrain, the Dominican Republic, Moldova, as well as to Egyptian resorts are opened.

Ukraine is in the second place in the world in terms of the volume of tourist flow in the Dominican Republic, sending 22 604 tourists to the resorts of the country.

The range of countries where a tourist can go from April to June is significantly limited and there are few alternatives in terms of price / service ratio as in Turkey.

Flights and tourist traffic from Russia amidst pandemic (weekly update)

According to the preliminary schedule of Russian tour operators, charter programs are planned from four cities - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan and Yekaterinburg. In case of restoration of air service charters will fly to 4 regions of the Dominican Republic: Punta Cana, Puerto Plata, Samana and La Romana.

The decision to ratify the abolition of the visa regime with Russia was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic.

Russian tourists in January and February 2020 were in the first place in terms of the number of passengers arriving at the resorts of the Dominican Republic on charter flights.

This week, retail received messages from Russian tour operators with announcements of early booking for the autumn-winter period of 2021.