Just as DSBW analysts predicted a month ago, in July 2014 the demand for excursion tours to Europe grew almost 19% as compared to June. At the same time, prices for excursion tours have dropped a little, about 6%. These are the results of Excursion Tour Index EXDEX for July 2014, which was compiled by the DSBW analysts.
The tour operator union is concerned with next year’s proposed implementation of fingerprint recognition procedures for the Schengen visa applicants. In its letter, the union requests clarification in regard to the potential changes.
Taken in absolute terms, it was 70.9m people. Passenger traffic on international air lines of the Moscow airports takes up 44% of this figure (18.1m)
In 2013, Russians were issued the biggest number of visas in Italy: 770 thousand. The country puts great value on Russian tourists. Strained relations between Russia and the EU, coupled with the growth of euro against ruble, makes Italian travel companies uneasy.
It has been over a year since Ruben Beltran received his credentials as Mexico’s ambassador to Russia. In this interview TRN magazine asked the ambassador about the progress that was the embassy has made during the past year in regard to consolidating tourism ties between the two countries, and about what there was still left to do…
Demand for excursion tours to Europe is expected to drop 25.62% in April. Such is the forecast compiled by DSBW’s analysts based on the Excursion Tour Index EXDEX for March of 2014. According to the experts’ findings, the number of search queries for excursion tours to Europe in various online booking systems will amount to 20,172 in April, as opposed to 27,121 in this year’s March.
Travel Russian News magazine and Superjob.ru are ready to present the results of another joint research aimed at determining the attitude of Russians to a wide-spread tour operator service – early booking, and also at finding out which countries are often booked in advance.
Over the past few years Italy has enjoyed increased demand from Russian skiing enthusiasts. The last season put Val di Fassa at the first spot in the rating by the marketing agency Proalps, which was compiled based on the Russian arrivals statistic for the Alpine resorts.
Tour operator DSBW presents the Index of Guided Tours ‘EXDEX’ for January 2014 and its forecast for February 2014. We’d like to draw your attention to the fact that EXDEX consists of two indicators – Index of demand for guided tours EXDEX-D and price index of guided tours EXDEX-P.
As part of the cross-tourism year between Italy and Russia
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