Current booking volumes for ski tours to European resorts are slightly higher than last year. Budget skiing favorites include Bulgaria and Andorra, while sales dynamics estimates in tour operator companies in Austria, Italy and France vary from insignificantly growth before subsidence.
This year, sales in the ski segment are going a little differently than last year. According to experts, bookings started earlier than usual and were active, but at the end of summer, when the euro exchange rate rose again, stagnation was observed. As a result, today the sales volume for a number of destinations is lower than a year earlier. Tour operators expect sales to peak by early December. As for popular destinations, the more budget ones are in the lead.
Biblio Globus is actively selling ski tours to Bulgarian resorts. As reported by the tour operator's press service, clients will find a wide choice of hotels and apartments in the most popular resorts of the country - Bansko, Borovets, Pamporovo. Biblio Globus ski tours to Bulgaria in the upcoming season are based on S7 flights from Moscow to Plovdiv airport. The flight program starts on December 26 and during the New Year's dates will be represented by three weekly flights on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and from January 14 by two flights a week on Mondays and Fridays. The tour operator's portfolio includes more than 20 resorts in Bulgaria and 230 accommodation facilities from 2 to 5 * for every taste and budget, guaranteed rooms, various meal options. "The depth of bookings in Bulgaria currently reaches March 2019," the company said.
Also in the upcoming winter season 2018/2019, the tour operator Biblio-Globus offers a wide range of budget accommodation facilities at Andorran resorts with the best price-quality ratio. Biblio-Globus' own flight program to Andorra will be presented by weekly flights on Saturdays from Moscow on board a comfortable Boeing-737 of Rossiya Airlines. The program starts on December 29.
TEZ TOUR offers tours to Andorra with departures on iFly Moscow-Barcelona from 29.12 to 30.03.
Clients of the tour operator Intourist are actively booking tours to Austria and Andorra. Sales volumes of the former are already 21% ahead of the same period last year. Analysis of early booking data for ski tours to Austria, Italy, France, Switzerland by the tour operator PAC Group also demonstrated positive dynamics, booking volumes exceeded last year's figures by an average of 15%.
For the upcoming winter season, PAC Group has expanded its range of budget accommodation in the Alps, increasing the number of properties located within walking distance of the ski lifts, and also includes popular hotels for family holidays.
In Jet Travel, Austria and France are the leaders in demand, while Austria's sales volumes are still 10% behind last year's figures. Switzerland is selling well. According to Maxim Pristavko, deputy general director of the tour operator, Switzerland is gaining popularity among budget tourists. After all, the price tag for a vacation in this country is comparable to the average price for European ski destinations. According to the expert, the price is at the level of 50-60 thousand rubles. In general, hoteliers did not raise prices this season, and in some hotels they even decreased.
Source: trn-news.ru
