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.
Through the windows of the descending plane we can already see banana plantations, azure creeks washed by the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, and the proud snowy summit of Teide volcano – the main symbol of Tenerife Island, where we went on a media tour organized by “Anex Tour” for Moscow journalists at the end of December, 2013. We got a taste of the peculiar insular way of life of Tenerife’s residents and saw the main sights and the best hotels of the island resort.
They are charged with a crime according to part 4 article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (large scale swindling)
How many clients and how much profits do tour operators lose due to the fact that potential customers cannot find the information they need on the site? And how many clients are there who chose an offer but were unable to buy it online? Statistically, three quarters of site visitors experience problems after they have already chosen a tour/ticket/hotel, in other words – at the last stage of buying/booking. Having got lost, they leave the site. So what are the ways to keep the existing clients, prolong their stay on the site and make the web page of a tour operator that much more efficient?..
The official sales of railway tickets to the host city of the Olympics have started today. Those fans who decided to get to Sochi by train should make haste.
According to ATOR (Association of Tour Operators of Russia), the main reasons for the systematic decline in domestic flight numbers are as follows: unreasonably high flight prices, underdeveloped domestic air route network, excessively expensive airport service and new airline policies which hinder competition and facilitate further ticket price growth.
The lawyers at Travel Agencies Alliance (TAA) have compiled a standard form contract for selling the tourism product, which from now on will be used by travel agents and their clients
It is notable that up to 80% of tourist flow gives tour operators scope, while 20% give profit. In order for the ‘profitable share’ of tourists to grow, tour operators should offer a number of additional services to their clients
The leaders of online travel business gathered in the Moscow ‘Aerostar’ hotel on November 14-15 for the annual conference E-Travel, with Travel Russian News magazine as the media sponsor. Representatives of more than 30 companies from Russia, Denmark, India and the UK presented reports and took part in panel discussions on the most urgent and relevant topics.
Advertising campaigns of Russian airlines are, for the most part, aimed at the upper middle-class. This, in part, causes many Russians to regard air services as something luxurious which, in turn, causes airlines to lose a large portion of potential clientele. This opinion was put forward by Lev Koshlyakov, deputy corporate communications CEO of the ‘UTair’ airline, on the international conference ‘Air Transport Marketing and Sales’ that took place in Moscow on November 21-22.