Rostourism: tour operators will return all organized tourists to Russia in the coming weeks – Russia |
10th of March. Interfax-Russia.ru – Tour operators in the coming weeks returned to Russia all the organized tourists stuck abroad, the head of Rostourism Zarina Doguzova said in her telegram channel.
“Now tour operators at their own expense extend the stay of tourists and select suitable options for connecting flights to return home. Tour operators’ clients are already actively returning to Russia.
The head of Rostourism reminded that organized tourist relations abroad need to be on the representative of their tour operator.
The Rossiya airline told Interfax that its partner, the Biblio Globus tour operator, is completing a program to take tourists out of foreign resorts.
“The last flight from Egypt landed on March 8. In total, from March 5 to March 8, about 13,000 passengers were taken from Egypt, Goa and the UAE by Rossiya flights,” the carrier’s press service said.
The tour operator Pegas Touristik also returned its tourists to their homeland. According to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR), in total, the company took out more than 14 thousand people from foreign countries.
Anex Tour is expected to pick up tourists by March 12. According to ATOR, export flights to Russia by the airline affiliated with it AZUR air are visited daily. From February 28 to March 8, more than 12 thousand people returned to them. The company returns tourists from Cuba, Maldives, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Turkey, UAE, Vietnam. In addition, work is underway to return tourists from Sri Lanka and the Seychelles, where the Russians flew to rest on regular flights.
“Azerbaijan air charter flights return to Russia and Russians who rest on their own and go on a regular flight. At the moment, Anex Tour has opened the sale of tickets for charter flights to the Russian Federation from Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the Maldives and Egypt,” ATOR emphasizes.
“Intourist”, according to ATOR, returned from abroad many of its tourists, who happened abroad at the time of the suspension of air traffic. For export, I also use AZUR air flights. Most of the company’s tourists plan to complete their vacation before March 14.
Export of tourists and companies that sent their clients abroad on regular flights. Their clients are stuck abroad due to departures from S7, Ural Airlines, Pobeda, Aeroflot and other past flights. Most of them, according to ATOR, have already returned home.
“ICS Travel Group had 50 people in Bulgaria who arrived on Bulgaria Air flights. Several returning tourists are already in Egypt. Tourists are travelers with return tickets for flights of regular carriers who are waiting for the decision of the Federal Air Transport Agency on the export of tourists,” they stopped at ATOR .
In total, according to Rostourism, at the time of arrival abroad there were about 160 thousand Russian tourists.