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For those wishing to book a plane ticket and hotel accommodation for the dates of the intended trip, online search tour of all tour operators with current offers, collected in one place. We offer you a convenient and quick search tours from all tour operators online, the ability to choose the country of stay and the date of the intended trip, the star rating of the hotel. You can evaluate the quality of service at any time. The best tour search engine for all tour operators is located on our travel web portal.

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The platform we have developed allows you to as soon as possible search for tours online that best match the search criteria and satisfy customers in terms of cost. In order to begin the search, you need to select the city of departure, the country where you are planning to travel, the resorts you want to visit, the number of people and planned dates, indicating the number of nights at the hotel. You can choose a hotel based on star rating, as well as by rating and type: active, family, city, deluxe, quiet, health, beach, or any of the above options. In order for the search to be as effective as possible, it is recommended to indicate the price limits within which you intend to search for a tour.

Why are Russians afraid to buy tours online?

A few words about what we are doing here in general. So, we write travel guides, blog about our travels, and also share airline ticket sales and last-minute tours with readers. In addition, we personally provide assistance in selecting tours in our public on VKontakte and on . This is not our main activity, we are still not professional management consultants, but if people more or less know what they want, then it is not a problem for us to find them a tour at the lowest price on the market. However, after a year and a half of selecting tours, we came to the conclusion that 8 out of 10 clients are really scared by the fact that the tour is offered to be booked online, and not in the usual travel agent’s office (the naive ones are not at all embarrassed by the fact that all these numerous travel agencies regularly go bankrupt. and tourists are simply scammed).

And the point is not that our site has some particularly timid audience, but the fact that, quoting the well-known industry publication Travelhubr.ru - “According to market participants, in Russia only about 3% of tours are sold online to the end client. While in Europe the share online booking tours in 2015 averaged 25%. Such low rate for the Russian market indicates a technological lag behind developed countries.” In my personal opinion, the lag here is not in technological development, but in the development of Internet literacy. People simply do not know what tools to use in order to select and buy a tour on their own without a tour operator (travel agency), and are also generally distrustful of the procedure for purchasing something online.

But once upon a time there was a similar situation with air tickets - people went to ticket offices, but then Aviasales and other online services appeared and the queues at the ticket offices thinned out sharply. Now more than 50% of air tickets are purchased online. So the migration of package holiday lovers online is inevitable, since all the conditions for the high-quality provision of this type of service via the Internet already exist.

Well, another important reason, in my opinion, is that a certain part of tourists are simply not ready and do not want to take responsibility for the quality of their vacation. After all, if you refuse the services of a travel agency and work out your vacation yourself, there will be no one to mentally blame for the suddenly unsuccessful vacation (the hotel is crap, the place is crap, whatever is crap). It turns out that you yourself are to blame, because you were too lazy to spend a few hours and figure out which hotels in the desired direction are ok, which are garbage, etc. 🙂

But let's try to understand why do we need travel agencies at all? and is it really possible to do without them (spoiler - you can).

Why do we need travel agencies?

To exaggerate, the entire activity of a travel agency (TA) comes down to issuing documents for you for the desired tour from a specific tour operator (TO). If you build a more detailed chain of relationships between the tourist and the TA, it will be like this: contacting the TA -> receiving advice -> booking a tour with the TO -> receiving confirmation for the tour from the TO -> issuing documents to you.

Those. in fact, a travel agent is an ordinary intermediary, who is engaged in administrative and advisory activities, for which he adds his commission on top of the cost of the tour. This margin is used to rent an office, pay salaries to managers, etc.

Yes, for some, the opportunity to get a consultation and pay for everything in the office is a very useful option. For example, if you are with a computer, it’s not just like you, but like you. If you have ever bought something online, then booking a tour online will be easy for you. And even if not, everything is done for the first time. 🙂 The main thing is to figure out where they sell tours online and which services you can really trust.

Where to buy a tour online?

There are plenty of options, but we recommend using The three largest and most popular online services in Russia for selling tours are, and. All three companies have existed for several years, have proven themselves well and, importantly, have high-quality and understandable websites through which even your grandmother will figure out how to buy a tour online.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW: all 3 services search for tours AT ONCE ALL reliable tour operators. Some have more, some have less, but everyone has the main ones, such as Anex Tour, Biblio Globus, Tez Tour, Pegasus, etc. This, by the way, is what distinguishes them from your favorite travel agency around the corner, which is unlikely to have such a variety of offers.

Each of these services is good in its own way, but we would highlight it separately for two reasons:
1) As you know, there are fuel surcharges for some popular destinations, such as Turkey, Greece and some others. So, both Level Travel and Travelata initially show the cost of the tour without fees, and only when you proceed to the booking process will they show you the final price with all the extras. Onlinetours, in turn, initially shows the cost of the tour with the fuel surcharge included. This is very convenient, because if you fly in a group, fuel surcharges can reach up to 15-20 thousand rubles.
2) Despite the fact that prices for tours for all three services may vary, lowest cost for identical offers, taking into account a discount of 3,000 rubles (how to get it - below), in 97% of cases, it will be from Onlinetours.

How to buy a tour online from all tour operators yourself?

Well, now let’s move on to the main topic of the post - how to buy a tour online. We have long wanted to write detailed instructions, but because Most people buy tours through our website on their own, and the site’s editors are used to vacationing in non-package ways, so to write this case, we had to wait for the moment when one of our close relatives was going on vacation. 🙂 In addition, the average bill for tours purchased through our website is in the region of 40 - 70 rubles, and we wanted the budget for the purchase of a tour to be at least 100,000 rubles, so that the reader could clearly see that that such services can be trusted with more impressive sums of money.

So, given:

• Group of 4 people: 65, 61, 31 and 7 years old
• Budget: 120-140 thousand rubles
• Accommodation: 5 stars, all inclusive, children's entertainment available on site
• Departure in 3-4 days

Compare prices from online services and travel agencies

I’ll say right away that none of my relatives have ever bought a tour online and although they didn’t experience any particular skepticism in terms of reliability (I wouldn’t advise them something that can’t be trusted), however, they had doubts that prices offered by online services can be competitive with travel agencies. My task was not at all to sell them a tour by any means - I just wanted to demonstrate to them and myself (once again) that the prices when buying online are at least not higher, but most likely lower, than with TA. Therefore, we agreed that they would go to their usual TA, where my sister had taken tours before and find out the prices for tours to those hotels that interest them, after which we would immediately compare them (I was in touch at that time). And then, depending on where the prices are lower, a decision will be made on who to buy the tour from.

That same evening, my sister and her parents went to TA and the following exchange of messages ensued between us on Whatsup:

An inquisitive reader will note the late time of correspondence and think - “Yeah, they’re trying to screw me - what kind of travel agency is open so late! Everything is fake and staged.” In fact, the author of these lines lives in Krasnoyarsk, while my sister lives in Moscow - given the time difference, everything is ok.

As you can understand from the correspondence - the prices that I looked at Onlinetours were either the same (taking into account the 3 tr discount, in fact, cheaper) or significantly lower - to the Raymar hotel in Side Onlinetours found a tour for 125 tr, and in TA they offered for 165 tr. The thing is that this travel agency simply did not work with the tour operator Intourist, who at that time had such low prices. Just like that, simply due to the wider coverage of tour operators, online services are able to offer more profitable options. Yes, you could probably find the same price in another TA, but that’s the advantage of online - you don’t need to run around to different travel agencies comparing prices🙂 Of course, I looked at the cost of this tour on both Travelata and Level Travel, but taking into account the discount, OT had the lowest price. Therefore, it was decided to buy a tour online through them.

Step-by-step instructions on how to buy a tour online

Basically, I just needed to buy a tour to a specific hotel, but... for most of you this procedure If it’s new, I’ll describe the whole process in as much detail as possible.

Step 1: go to and enter data to search for a tour. We select the departure city (Moscow), the desired destination (Turkey), the number of nights (7-8), the number of vacationers (3 adults + 1 child) and departure dates (from August 2 to 4). Click - “FIND A TOUR”.

Once the search is complete you will see everything available tours in your direction.

Be sure to wait until the search bar reaches the end and disappears - the cheapest tours are often loaded at the last moment.

Step 2: Use filters to narrow down your selection of hotels. In my case, I checked the boxes in the “Food” section, opposite “All inclusive” and “Ultra all inclusive”, and also set the hotel’s star rating - 5 stars. If you click on “detailed filters”, you will have access to even more options for a more precise search. Also, do not forget about the function of sorting prices for tours by price and popularity.

Step 3: We have received a selection of tours that more accurately reflect our needs. Now it's time to find out more about the hotels offered to us. What is needed for this? — Read ratings and reviews. IMPORTANT! If you are a person with requests, then you don’t even have to look at those hotels whose rating is below 7-7.5 points; as a rule, there are a lot of complaints about them. If you are not very picky or the quality of accommodation plays a nominal role for you, then you can consider all accommodation options.

You can check hotel reviews on Onlinetours itself, but I noticed that the ratings there are usually somewhat inflated. Therefore, for more relevant reviews, I always turn to Tripadvisor and Booking. If a hotel has a rating above 7.5-8 on these resources, then you can take it after first reading the negative comments in order to understand what kind of complaints are being made against it. If they are not critical for you, book them. If the hotel rating is higher than 8-8.5/10, then this is already very good hotel, where you can safely go. Of course, this algorithm is slightly exaggerated; in fact, you can thoughtfully read a huge number of reviews, look at true photos from tourists on Tripadvisor, etc.

For some, the process of choosing a hotel can be a rather tedious task, so apparently many people want to delegate this procedure to a travel agent, but I personally sincerely enjoy doing this every time. 🙂 After all, no one but yourself will choose a better hotel for you.

Step 4: Let's move on to booking. So, after reading the reviews, I decided that the Raymar Hotel was best suited - I proceeded to booking. To do this, click on the orange button with the price, which is 125,402 rubles for everyone.

Next we see full list all possible tours in this hotel from different tour operators, with different accommodation options ( Standart room, with views of the mountains, sea, etc.) and types of food (in in this case only ultra all inclusive, but usually there is a choice in the “type of tour” column different types food).

Here you can click on “show all offers with flights to this hotel”, then even more available options will open to you. You can also click on the “graph low prices", which reflects the prices for tours to this hotel for neighboring dates. It may turn out that prices are lower for upcoming dates.

note, that the cost of the tour between Intourist and Anex Tour differs by almost 10,000 rubles, although the offers are identical.

Because I was given the goal of buying a tour online at the lowest price, so the option for 125,402 rubles was chosen. Click the orange price button again.

Step 5: getting acquainted with detailed information about the tour. Here you need to once again check in detail all the information on the selected tour. If everything is in order, click “book”.

Step 6: We enter data about tourists and apply a discount on the tour.

So, now to complete the paperwork you need to enter passport details for everyone who is going on vacation. However, if suddenly someone still does not have a passport ready, then the data can be filled out after booking the tour.

Also at this stage you need to apply a discount, which can be obtained using. In order for the discount to be activated, you need to check the box in the “Your bonus miles and discounts."

The new price will be displayed immediately after the discount is activated. In my case, it became 122,402 rubles. After applying the discount, click “Book” again

ATTENTION! Despite the fact that medical insurance is already included in the price of the tour, if your company includes people over 65 years old, you will have to pay an additional 500 rubles for insurance. Since my father turned 65 just the day before, this amount had to be added to the cost of the tour.

Step 7: Now all you have to do is enter your card details and the tour will be booked. We especially note the fact that after this your funds will only be frozen! The actual write-off will be carried out only after the tour has been confirmed by the tour operator. If the tour operator does not confirm the tour, then they will be unfrozen in the near future.

After entering all the data, an SMS with a code will be sent to the phone linked to the card, which will need to be entered, after which the amount will be frozen.

As a result, you will receive a notification that the payment has been made.

Well, that's all - the tour is booked. An official legal agreement for the provision of relevant services will be sent to you immediately by email. It can also be downloaded from your personal account.

After this, within 1-2 hours, the Onlinetours manager will call you and discuss all the details of your order again. Next, within about 24 hours, you will receive information from the tour operator about whether your tour is confirmed or not. As soon as this becomes known, the manager will hire you again, and personal account the corresponding information will appear - see the “Order Status” section.

What to do if the tour is not confirmed? Usually in such cases the manager contacts you and tries to offer an adequate alternative. If you are satisfied with it, then, depending on the cost of the new tour, you either get the difference back or you pay extra for the missing part. If a compromise is not found, then the money will be returned to your card in full.

If everything goes according to plan and the tour is confirmed, then about a day before departure you will be sent all Required documents(tour voucher, insurance, etc.), which, among other things, will indicate exact time departure. Previously, documents were not sent due to rules according to which passenger lists are formed only on the eve of departure.

All procedures, in terms of confirming a tour with a travel agent, preparing a package of documents and receiving them, are no different from those practiced by ordinary travel agents. In fact, in this case, Onlinetours acts as a travel agent, bearing exactly the same legal responsibility in the event of failure to provide its services, so there is no need to worry in this regard.

That's all, actually! We hope that using our example, you understood how to buy a tour online from all tour operators and that it is no more difficult or dangerous than buying from any offline travel agency. And no matter what the cost of the tour you need, the procedure is in any case as transparent and safe as possible.

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