ATOR: Russian Tour Operators Have Already Sold 20% Of Rounds To Turkey For Summer Season

Russian tour operators by the end of February this year sold about 20% of all planned tours to Turkey on May-Styabr 2025, which is about a third more than in the same period in 2024. This was reported in the Association of Tour operators of Russia (ATOR).

According to leading tour operators in the Turkish direction, early reservation of Turkish resorts for the summer season (May-Styabr) of 2025 is still better than a year ago, despite the fact that the volumes and geography of flight programs as a whole changed insignificantly, the report said.

as of the end of February 2025, many large “charter” players (Coral Travel, Anex, Pegas Touristik), the current demand for vouchers to summer Turkey exceeds last year for the same dates.

“on average in the market, taking into account the weights and shares of different players in the Turkish direction, at the end of February 2025, the number of early reservations of tours to Turkey for the summer increased by about a third compared to the same dates of last year,” follows from the message.

At the same time, the resorts of Antalya now account for about 90-95% of all early sales, and the resorts of the Aegean coast of Turkey-5-10%.

The general list of departure points from which tour operators put charter flights to Turkey consists in 2025 of 21 city.

Atore noted that tourists were activated in the second half of February in connection with the strengthening of the ruble, as well as due to the fact that March 1 ends the next stage of early reservation.