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‘Our special offer is a discounted price thanks to which we managed to close down sales for the flight’, explained Lyubov Gulidova, director of department for exotic destinations of CAPITAL TOUR company. – ‘It was proposed due to the fact that sales for the 21st did not go very well’.
For this date many destinations are sold poorly – not only Phuket, this date is very inconvenient, - believes Vera Susova, head expert of Thailand at ‘Bureau South Cross’. In general, according to the participants of the program, in spite of the fact that the charter is the only direct charter flight to Phuket this season, the demand for it leaves much to be desired.
We will remind you that the charter program was launched on the 30th of November and except CAPITAL TOUR and ‘Bureau South Cross’ seats on Boeing-767 from Transaero are shared by 3 more operators – Lanta-tour voyage, ‘PAX company’ and ‘Aniko-tour’.
‘There is a huge amount of offers to Thailand at the moment, including packages to Phuket via Bangkok: it is less convenient than the direct flights but costs considerably less if you do not take into account special last minute offers. The service is not as good either’, explains Maxim Lobanov, deputy general director of ‘PAX company’. According to her, it decreases interest to the direct charter to Phuket.
Market experts mark a considerable fall of demand on Phuket as such. Alexander Sinigibskiy, general representative of ‘Tez Tour’ in Russia, sees a possible reason for this in the fact that most tourists associate the island with tsunami catastrophe. Besides, local hoteliers did not drop the prices considerably while air tickets, to the contrary, increased in price. If a Russian tourist decides to have a holiday there, which in their opinion is not going to be very relaxing, they want to get in only with a big discount.
