The early 2015 there was marked by strong decline in the interest in overseas tours by Internet users. In fact, it was only tours to Turkey that were booked for the summer. According to ATOR Analytical Service, the number of requests for tours to different countries decreased on average by 35% compared with last year’s January.

In this year’s October, the number of tourists from Russia to Thailand dropped by almost 25%, ATOR Analytical Service reports. Tour operators say that Thailand is still the most popular winter destination in the Russian market, but the winter season is likely to end with a minus sign - because of declining consumer activity, transportation has to be reduced.

In September, Turkey remained the most popular destination for Russian tourists, according to the number of requests in the system Sletat.ru. Moreover, despite the rise of the dollar and a reduction in the outbound tourism market, this area was able to increase its share in comparison with September 2013, according to ATOR Analytical Service citing Sletat.ru.

In the period from July 19th to 19 August19th, a decrease in the number of Yandex queries was recorded on almost all popular tourist destinations. The fall on different destinations ranged from 5% to 50%. ATOR Analytical Service notes that the user activity on Yandex clearly reflects the picture of real demand in August.

According to the new statistics by Rosstat, the departure voulme of Russian citizens decreased by 6.5% in the first half of 2014. The 3 most visited countries by Russian tourists were Finland, Turkey and Egypt.

Yandex data analysis for June 2014 shows the growing interest of Internet users in foreign tourist destinations, and the weakening of attention to vacation in Russia. This ATOR Analytical Service also records a reduction in the depth of sales.

In this year’s February, Russian tourists in Turkey were less numerous than last year. And during the first two months of 2014, they were more than 4.5% more numerous, says ATOR Analytical Service.

The ATOR Analytical Service has found out what summer destinations our tourists choose as special early booking offers.

Russian airlines passenger traffic increased in January 2012 by 14.3% in comparison with January 2011. According to ATOR, Russian carriers transported more than 4.5 million people in the first month of this year - by 14.6% more than in January last year.

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.

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.

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 word “record” became the usual one for the Turkish destination. From the beginning of the year almost every month the country demonstrates a growth in comparison with the level of last year. July 2011 didn’t become an exception.

July was a record-breaking in number of the last minute offers. The market of air transportation and consequently the market of travel product decreased by leaps and bounds in July 2011, which had a reflection in number of the requests in TOURINDEX system for the tours with the departure dates in August and September.

This year may become a record-breaking for the Croatia in number of the tourists. According to the Ministry of Tourism of Croatia, 6.2 million tourists visited the country during the first 6 months of 2011 (+8% or +450 thousand people in comparison with the same period of last year).