Restoration of charter flights to Turkey will lead to cost reduction vouchers by 20-30%. However, the season is almost over, and in September, the number of tourists will be significantly below last year’s level, market participants believe
Turkey Open
On Sunday, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a resolution lifting the ban on charter flights between Russia and Turkey. Earlier on Saturday, the draft document submitted to the government Ministry of Transport. Suspension of charter flights between the two countries lasted from December last year after the Turkish Air Force shot down a Russian Su-24 was carrying out a combat mission in Syria. Their restoration of the presidents of the two countries agreed during a telephone conversation at the end of June. On August 9 at the press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the imminent resumption of charter flights to Turkey
«Airlines began filing in the Federal Air Transport Agency to carry out non-scheduled flights to points of the Turkish Republic”, -. Minister of Transport Maxim Russia said Sokolov was quoted as saying in a statement on the website of Ministry of Transport, which appeared after the publication of the government decree. For his part, Russian aviation authorities are ready to immediately provide the necessary conditions for the implementation of charter flights to Turkey, including start issuing the relevant permits to Russian airlines, added the report.
For the first six months of 2016 Russian tourist flow to Turkey decreased by 87.4% to 183.8 thousand. people, according to the Ministry of culture and tourism of the country. Results of June were even worse in this month visited Turkey on 93% less than the Russians, than a year ago, when the country moved 652.7 thousand people
Got replacement
Many of these travelers shifted to the resorts of the Krasnodar Territory and the Crimea. Such, according to the company Tez Tour, were about 20%. Indeed, according to the Ministry of Resorts and Tourism of Crimea, the number of tourists on the peninsula increased by 21% during the first half of 2016, to 1.57 million tourists. According to the administration of Krasnodar region, local resorts for the same period was visited by 5% of holidaymakers more than a year earlier, or 6.3 million people. Loading hotels and resorts on the Black Sea coast has reached almost 90%, on the Azov – more than 50%, said earlier deputy governor Veniamin Kondratyev.
Unavailability holiday in Turkey has allowed hoteliers to increase domestic prices for accommodation in the season 15 -20% estimated previously president of the alliance of hoteliers Russian U PRO and CEO of the management company U PRO management (develops a network of hotels Bregutta in Crimea) Tamara Black. Most likely, in its view, in the next year will not be such a huge demand for Russian resorts that allow the market to return to normal. In these circumstances, the hotel will form a pricing policy more cautious, Black is sure.
On July 1 the next day after the cancellation of Vladimir Putin, the ban on the sale of tours to Turkey, this country has become the most popular on the user requests the service ” Yandeks.Puteshestviya “which aggregates deals from tour operators. For three days, from June 29 to July 1, the number of requests for tours to Turkey increased by 4 times, told RBC representatives of “Yandex”, without revealing the absolute numbers. However, areas such as the Crimea and Sochi, became interested in Russian 3 times less.
Torn Season
The lack of charter flights, which stand at 30 % less than regular, prevent the restoration of good sales. However, news of the lifting of the ban on charter flights to Turkey, market participants find it very late. “This weekend, with most resorts returns broad category of customers – families with children, – said the representative of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Tyurin. – On September the children will go to school. Season in Turkey will end in October, but now because of the falling demand for money since fall. »
In August, Turkey was the fourth most popular destination after Greece, Cyprus and Tunisia, says the director of development of the network of travel agencies Global Travel Sergey Samohvalov. “Now the price difference between the rest of Greece and Turkey, there is little, – he says. – As soon as the fly to Turkey charters, prices in relation to the decline of Greece and the direction will be very popular. ” According to Turina, charter flights are able to reduce the price of permits in Turkey by approximately 20-30% compared to current prices.
Thanks to attractive prices in Turkey in September, will go up to 2-2,5 times more tourists than in August I am sure Samohvalov. Even if he still will be on tour in Turkey demand compared to August will grow somewhere in the two times less than in September last year, the General Director of “NTK Intourist” Victor Topolkaraev. “In my opinion, in September Turkey can visit the 100-150 thousand Russians, whereas in previous years in September in Turkey flew 200-300 thousand, -.. He says. – Many of those who want to relax, have already made it, so wait a substantial increase in numbers of tourists to Turkey in September relative to August, it is not necessary ».
The airlines will be easy to find” extra “planes, which can be redirected to charter flights to Turkey, experts converge in opinion. “In Sochi, Simferopol in September will fly fewer vacationers, so about 30% of the aircraft, which flew in these areas, can be sent to Turkey,” – said Samohvalov. Very rearrange planes from one direction to another airline will not, and will do so gradually, focusing on the flow of tourists, said Topolkaraev.
Russia resumes flights charters to Turkey – Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree repealing the ban. Airlines have already begun to apply
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