THE WAR IN UKRAINE RUINS THE TOURIST SEASON IN TURKEY

Denise Chen -
The Turkish tourism sector, which accounts for 5% of the country's GDP, has been hit hard by the war on the other side of the Black Sea. Russia and Ukraine are among the main source countries of its t ...

ARAB TOURISM SAVED THE SUMMER SEASON IN ISTANBUL

The glass can look half full or half empty for Turkish tourism, but one thing is certain. The gigantic Istanbul airport, untimely inaugurated nine months before the pandemic, was visibly designed for ...

WHERE HAVE RUSSIAN TOURISTS TRAVELED MOST IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023?

Gary Diskin -
According to the ATOR (Association of Russian Tour Operators) analytical service, a list of the top countries visited by Russian tourists from January to June 2023 has been comprised using official fo ...

MEXICO EXCEEDS PRE-PANDEMIC LEVELS OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISM REVENUE

Andrew J. Wein -
Mexico's tourism industry is booming again, with revenues well above pre-pandemic levels in the first quarter of 2023, although the total number of tourists is still below those figures. ...

RUSSIAN INBOUND TOURISM COLLAPSED LAST YEAR

Richard Moor -
Russian inbound tourism is - not surprisingly - at a standstill. According to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (Ator), the number of visitors to the country fell by 96.1% in 2022. The count ...