11/08/2019 17:00

Not only charters

On October 11th specialists in mountain ski Austria gathered at the ‘round table’ in the online broadcast on www.tourdom.ru. For three hours Maria Senkina, deputy director general (Sunrise Tour), Evgeniy Sudbin, deputy director general (Ascent Travel), Svetlana Ivanova, head of Austrian destination department (VKO Travel company), and Lilia Gorbunova, destination supervisor (UTE Megapolus company), discussed forecasts for the forthcoming season. One of the most urgent subjects of the discussion that attracted heightened attention of the forum visitors, among whom were specialists well known on the market. was transfer. Alexander Kurmachev (FIT company), for example, shared his opinion on that topic. ‘The prices that operators offer for charter flights to Salzburg and Munich in the approaching season, are sometimes no different from regular flights to Munich,’ he said. And sometimes charter prices are even higher. Thus a conclusion arises that starting with end of January, after two peak weeks (the main flow of mountain-skiers is between January 2nd and 14th), charter programs might ‘slump’ because of a tilt towards ‘better quality and cheaper regular transfer’. Experts of the round table agreed with that point of view. ‘We are well known charterers, but this year we concentrated the main volume of flights to Tyrol on the boards of regular carriers,’ noted Lilia Gorbunova specifically. According to general opinion, this occurrence is going to become a constant characteristic of Austrian mountain ski season. Broadcast participants also discussed the depth of sales, which, to their opinion, enlarged. ‘Every year our mountain-skiers are becoming active earlier and earlier. All the season is practically sold before the New Year,’ said, for example, Svetlana Ivanova. Besides, experts came to a conclusion that mountain-ski Austria is becoming a more and more universal destination. According to Evgeniy Sudbin, during the low season a week long trip to that country costs only 399 Euro. You can see the details of the broadcast here.