The overwhelming majority (65%) of survey, conducted from August 18 to September 1 on the Russian tourist portal TourDom.ru, believes that it is inexpedient to fly to Thailand in conditions of severe restrictions there.

Tour operators do not hope that the winter season will go smoothly, since countries, popular among Russians, such as Thailand and Vietnam, do not plan to open in 2020.

In July-August, Russian tourists started buying air tickets for the New Year holidays after a long break. Primarily, hey show interest for the still closed European countries.

The Thai authorities are ready to open the borders for Russian tourists in the near future. Now the question of lifting restrictions on international flights is on the agenda. Under favorable circumstances, the question can be settled within one month.

Thai Civil Aviation Authority announced that it will lift the ban on international flights from July 1. The ban on entry is removed for foreigners entering with business and medical purpose.

Thai Airways has announced plans to suspend flights to almost all of its destinations. The flights to Moscow will be suspended from April 1, 2020 until further notice.

Since March 23, Russia has introduced new time restrictions on flights to countries where cases of new coronavirus infection have been identified.

In connection with the spread of the coronavirus Coivid-19 in the world, the number of foreign tourists visiting Thailand in February 2020 decreased by 44,3% compared to the same period last year.

Thai national carrier Thai Airways published an official announcement on the cancelation of the summer flight program from Moscow to Bangkok. The restriction will come into effect on June 1, 2020.

According to the Border Service, in 2019, Russian citizens made 48 072 285 trips in 176 foreign countries and territories. This is 7,9% more than in 2018 (44 551 092).

The tour operator Pegas Touristik, after the successful launch of Nordwind Airlines charter program to the Thai Surat Thani airport on February 14, plans to start flights from Khabarovsk.

The travel service Tutu.ru analyzed all air tickets, sold from any city in Russia, with travel dates from December 1, 2019 to March 1, 2020 and compiled a rating of destinations that are most popular.

In 2019, according to TAT, the number of Russian tourist arrivals in Thailand remained almost at the level of last year, amounting to 1,47 million. In general, the Thai authorities predict a decline in volumes from the Russian market in 2020, due to the difficult economic situation in Russia.

Almost 1,5 million Russian tourists visited Thailand in 2019, the tourist flow has not changed compared to last year. The authorities hope to attract more tourists from the Russian Federation thanks to charters from Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk,

Between December 27 and April 22, Surat Thani is to welcome 32 flights from Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk, both in Russia. About 12 760 tourists are expected to visit Surat Thani during this period, generating revenue of around 500 million baht ($16.6 million).

Independent Russian travelers named the countries in which they like to return most of all, Turkey was the leader.

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

The number of arrivals of Russian tourists to Thailand from January to October 2019 exceeded one million, despite a decrease in tourist flow by 2%. This is a record among non-Asian countries.

In February 2020, Pegas Touristik will add to three cities new departure points to Koh Samui. Russian tourist flow to the island may grow this winter by 600%.

At the end of this year, the charter program of Pegas Touristik in Koh Samui will start. Charters from Russia will fly to this region of Thailand for the first time - prices start from 564 Euros per person per tour.

Tourists, independently traveling abroad for the New Year’s date, favor this year Germany, Italy and Thailand. The TOP-5 also includes Spain and France.

Nordwind Airlines will transport more than 12 thousand Russian tourists to the Thai airport of Surat Thani province from December till April.

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 representatives of tourist retailers reported the information about the most popular destinations of the beginning of the autumn-winter season. Thailand, the UAE and Vietnam became the leaders in the Asian destinations.

Some tours from Moscow to Thailand on the first flights of the winter flight schedule of tour operators are sold at the cost of air tickets. But in general, the dynamics of loading of the boards for the first half of the winter season is now even higher than in the same period a year earlier.