Industry Hospitality, Tourism Services Travel agencies Founder Ramazan Akpinar Headquarters Moscow | Area served Global Revenue $670 млн (2008) Founded 1994, Russia | |
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Key people Podgornaya Anna Albertovna
(CEO) Products Charter and scheduled passenger airlines, package holidays, cruise lines, hotels and resorts | ||
Pegas touristik pegas tvc15
Pegas Touristik (Russian: Пегас Туристик) — Russian tour operator. Its head office is located in Moscow. The company was launched in 1994.
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- Pegas touristik pegas tvc15
- Head and ownership
- Activity
- Suspension of tours to Egypt and Turkey
- Awards
- Incidents
- References
In Russian regions, Pegas Touristik has over 50 offices of tourism. Moreover, Pegas Touristik is represented in Ukraine, Belorussia, Georgia and in Kazakhstan. Company has its offices of accepting tourists in Turkey (suspended), Egypt (suspended), Thailand, China, UAE and Israel.
Head and ownership
"Pegas Touristik" is based on the investment principal owner - Ramazan Akpınar, who initially cooperated with the Turkish company Infotur, but in 2005 broke the relations, because of the conflict of relationship.
Activity
In 2008, the company served 870 thousand tourists, and the total income was $670 million.
In summer 2008, «Pegas Touristik» bought 100% of Nordwind Airlines. As the result of the contract between the tourist company and the airline, Nordwind Airlines became personal for Pegas Touristik airline and personal terminal in Moscow-Sheremetyevo Terminal C.
In December 2008, Pegas Touristik absorbed the Ural-based tour operator "Оранж Тур (Orange Tour)". Since 2008, Pegas Touristik began to buy popular hotels in Turkey, Thailand and Egypt to form its own group of hotels. As in 2015, it has sold one of its PGS World Palace 5* to the company Alva Donna.
30 December 2015, the Federal Agency of Tourism has excluded Pegas Touristik and other tourist companies from one group of tourist operators.
Suspension of tours to Egypt and Turkey
In 2015, due to the Metrojet Aircrash in Egypt, which was recognised as the terrorist attack, and due to the Turkish attack on the Russian Air Force planes, Pegas Touristik, along with other big tourist companies in Russia, suspended all their tours to Egypt and Turkey. The resuming of the tours is expected, but with no fixed dates.