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

Several experts confirmed that the sales of tour packages actually has frozen last days due to the negative information background that arose in connection with the aggravation of political relations between Russia and Turkey.

Russians are the leaders in entry tourism flow in Antalya: in January and February 103 thousand of them came at the resorts of Antalya. This is almost 50% more than it was in the same period last year.

The hotel industry in Turkey last year added in all three key indicators: average load, average room price and average room income. These indicators have become maximum over the past three years.

Turkey has published official statistics on tourist arrivals for 2019. Russia set a new record of tourist flow to Turkey. Every sixth foreign tourist who visited Turkey last year was a citizen of the Russian Federation.

Turkey in January accounts 57% of tours which were sold for the summer season of 2020. The increase of volumes of tours on the early booking stage to Turkey among major players reaches 200%.

On January 21, representatives of tour operator companies told about changes in flight programs in Antalya for the summer of 2020. Most travel companies increase the volume of transportation and expand the geography of departures.

The tour operator Intourist has expanded the flight program, as well as the geography of cities of departure to Turkish Dalaman. In 2020 the geography of the tour operator’s flights will be expanded to 10 cities.

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

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

Since April 29, 2020, Nordwind Airlines starts charter flights from Kaluga airport to Antalya (Turkey) and from May 23, 2020 to Heraklion (Greece) and Monastir (Tunisia).

Turkish experts compiled a rating according to the volume of Russian tourists sent by tour operators to the resorts of Antalya for 11 months of 2019.

Turkey has become an almost year-round holiday destination for Russians. By the end of the year the country will host about 6 million Russians.

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

The ATOR analytical service has examined the sales statistics of the federal travel agency network “1001 Tours” and found out which hotels in Turkey are most popular for the New Year holidays-2020 and how much the tours cost there. Among the favorites of the Russians are both budget and deluxe hotels.

Russia remains a source market number one for Turkey: almost 6,7 million people have already arrived from Russia for 10 months of 2019. This is an absolute record in the history of Russian-Turkish tourism.

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.

Tour operators record an increase in demand for tours to Istanbul this winter season. Experts pay attention to an increase in the depth of sales of the destination for the New Year holidays up to three months.

One of the top four tourism exhibitions worldwide, EMITT will host world tourism professionals and holiday consumers for the 24th time in Istanbul at the Tüyap Fair, Convention and Congress Center between January 30 and February 2, 2020. The exhibition will remain committed to its mission of serving as a platform where the new agenda items of the tourism industry are discussed.

Every third tourist on the beaches of Antalya this year turned out to be a Russian. According to the Office of Culture and Tourism of Antalya, in January-October, 5 414 602 tourists from Russia came in local hotels. In annual terms, the Russian tourist flow to Antalya grew by almost 13%.  In total, the number of tourists from Russia over 10 months exceeded the number of tourists from Germany (2,5 million people) and Ukraine (795 thousand people). These countries are on the second and third positions, respectively. 

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.

For the 9 months of 2019, almost 6 million of Russians visited Turkey, which is a new record for the Russian market. By the number of arrivals, tourist flow from the Russian Federation for three quarters have already exceeded the figures for the whole of 2018.

Turkey was the leader of the summer season 2019. And Alexander Ermolaev - Mag.travel commercial director has suggested the colleagues of the closed travel public in social media to vote for the best air company during this summer season. Turkish airlines company was excluded from the start. This poll has caused the heated discussion. Travel experts expressed their attitude to the air carriers - participants of Turkey destination by voting.

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.