The operators affirm that New Year tours to Austria have been sold like “hot cakes”. One of the reasons of such popularity is a very attractive price which almost has not changed in comparison with last year. An average price of the tour varies from 700 to 2500 Euros per person. For example, PAC GROUP states the growth of the sales for Austria by 30-35%.

The tour operators note a great interest of the Russians in Goa, India. Despite the excess of air transportation, the planes are loaded almost without any losses of profit. At the same time, the accommodation is being booked in a low-priced segment. The operators explain such tendency by the situation in Thailand and Egypt.

Such conclusion was made by ATOR Analytical Service after receiving the data of the Russian Aviation Authorities for September and total indicators for 9 months of 2011.

According to the National Statistics Bureau of Cuba, the increase of the tourist flow during the period from January to September was noted for 8.4% in comparison with the same period of last year. Cuba hopes to receive 2.7 million tourists by the end of the year.

The process of industrial integration of Kuban and Sky Express has been finished. Starting from October 30, 2011 Kuban will operate all regular and charter flights of the Russian low cost carrier to Egypt and Turkey.

The number of the processed requests of the agents (users of TOURINDEX) increased by 17.8% in September in comparison with the same period of last year, has announced ATOR Analytical Service.

The number of the tourists who wished to travel abroad increased by 15-20% during the first 6 months of the year in comparison with the same period of last year. Such data was announced by Aleksandr Radkov, the Head of Rostourism during the press conference. According to Mr Radkov, inbound and domestic tourist flows increased by 8% and 10% accordingly.

The new seaport of St. Petersburg “Morskoy Fasad” which was opened only in 2011, has received 417 thousand tourists and 220 cruise liners during summer (+15% in comparison with 2010). About 363 thousand cruise passengers visited St. Petersburg in 2010.

The airport of Nice has noted an increase of the passenger traffic by 25% during the last months, every second Russian tourist who has the holidays in the south of France stays in this city.

The cost of the holidays in the UAE decreased by 20%. In October and November the operators had to publish a lot of special offers due to the increase of the air transportation to the country almost in two times. The decrease of the price has affected the segment of budget tours.

Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) sent an open letter to the Speaker of the Lower chamber Boris Gryzlov in connection with the decision of Economical Policy and Entrepreneurship Committee to recommend the deputies to approve during the second reading the amendments to the law about the principles of travel activities in the Russian Federation.

The main objective of this merger is the establishment of a powerful multi-diversified tour operator holding. The strategic financial partner of the merger became Financial and Industrial Capital Bank (FPK).

ATOR Analytical Service announced that the total passenger traffic of the Russian air companies increased by 16.8% in August if to compare with 2010.

The Russian tour operators note a good start of sales for Dominican Republic. Despite a great number of the flights, the destination promises to be profitable.

The number of the Russians who visited Greece during the summer period increased by 40% in comparison with last year, however the price wars of the tour operators didn’t give them an opportunity to make money of selling the tours.