The anticipation of travel brings a lot of pleasant emotions. Although it can be difficult for some to decide in which country to spend their long-awaited vacation, it is even more difficult to choose a tour. After all, it should be suitable both for the price and for the level of rest.

On the site "Putevki.ru" you can independently choose a tour online or buy advantageous voucher with the help of a travel agent. He will find what exactly will meet the desires and possibilities.

Advantages of choosing a ticket in the online store of tours

Out of habit, many people look for tours on the websites of tour operators, spending a lot of time and effort on this. Whereas searching for tours online with the service "Putevki.ru" requires a minimum of effort. Advantages of the online store: all tours and discounts from 70 reliable tour operators on one site;

• convenient and simple search system;
• a large assortment of real vouchers with current prices;
• quick and professional selection of the tour, taking into account the wishes and financial possibilities;
• advice from experienced travel agents about holidays in the selected country, resort or hotel.

How to choose a tour: description of the procedure

Online tour selection takes a minimum of time:

1. Select the city of departure and the country in which you plan to travel. Optionally, exclude non-direct flights from your search.
2. Decide on the start and end dates of departure. You can capture a larger range of times, and later decide when to fly on vacation by looking at the search results.
3. Enter the number of nights you will spend at the hotel and the number of adults and children.
4. Select a hotel with at least a certain star rating.
5. If you have decided on a resort, mark it with a tick. Here you can also specify a specific hotel.
6. Additional filters by type of food, rating, type of hotel will help narrow down the search.
7. Specify the price range if the financial factor plays an important role.
8. If necessary, select offers only from a specific tour operator.
9. Click the "Find tours" button so that the system returns the results that match your queries.

If the final choice is made, you can proceed to booking a tour.

Tour Scanner is our special project, which has grown from the heading about last-minute tours into a separate site turscanner.ru. Now Tour Scanner is the best aggregator profitable tours in runet.

The list of the most profitable tours is constantly updated (old ones are corrected and new offers are added). Information about tours is presented in the form short description and links to specific tours on the websites of online agencies. By clicking on the link, you can find all detailed information about the tour and book it online.

Why Tour Scanner is the best way to buy a profitable tour?

1. Tour Scanner analyzes the offers of the top three online agencies, comparing them with each other. In turn, these agencies present tours from all major and reliable tour operators in the country: Pegas Tourism(Pegasus), Biblio Globus (Biblio Globe), AnexTour (Anex Tour), Coral Travel(Coral), TUI (Tui), Tez Tour (Tez tour), Sunmar (Sanmar), Intourist (Intourist), Mouzenidis Travel(Mouzenidis). Thus, you can be sure that Tour Scanner evaluates the entire range of existing market offers.
2. Tour Scanner does not depend on agencies or tour operators, which means that all offers are evaluated objectively.
3. Tour Scanner does not mark up. The price in the Tour Scanner is exactly the same as if you yourself found this tour on the agency's website.
4. Tour Scanner uses the most modern automated tools for finding profitable tours.
5. Profitable tours found automatically are additionally evaluated and checked by the editor. Thus, the list has been cleared of similar offers, and the proposed tours are not just tours at the lowest price, but really profitable offer.
6. The information in the Tour Scanner is short and concise, so you can quickly view all the current offers, without any effort and wasting time looking at various agency sites and communities in social networks.
7. In Tour Scanner, great attention is paid to the speed of updating publications, and new offers appear here before other resources.
8. You can subscribe to the Tour Scanner updates in messengers. Thus, you will have an advantage in the speed of obtaining information. This is important if you want to catch a last minute tour. Usually, the time of relevance of burning offers is short, but the prices are as attractive as possible.
9. All the offers presented in the Tour Scanner can be booked online, and it is very convenient. No need to waste time on long trips to the agency, choosing a hotel without agent pressure is as objective as possible in terms of price-quality and personal preferences.
10. Tour Scanner has support. If you do not understand something, you can always ask a question through the forms feedback in messengers or in the communities of the LuckyWings project in social networks.

Airline promotions and last-minute tours are collected by several travelers from Belarus. Here you can find erroneous rates, sales of tours, company shares, coupons for housing in different countries Oh. The site also has Ukrainian and Belarusian versions. The main thing is not only to see the right promotion in time, but also to have time to make a purchase, because everyone wants to travel more and pay less for it.

An online magazine that does not specialize in promotions, but writes about everything useful for traveling: among the topics are life hacks, stories, foreign internships. We recommend that you take a closer look at the “Profitable” section, where editor Anastasia Repreva collects air tickets at attractive prices every day. There are also often different instructions here, for example, how to get to different countries cheaply. For example, if you don’t know about the Moscow-Nesterov train yet, then you are here.

This is a specialized site for participants in the tourism market, but there is something for an ordinary person who wants to go on vacation. For last-minute tours (less often - cruises) you need to go to the "Exchange" section: various tour operators throw off their special offers on tickets and tour packages here during the day. It remains to wait for the right, at the same time putting things in a suitcase.

A community with the name "Pirates" and the slogan "Travel cheap!" greets readers with nothing more than “Aloha!” and generally replete with enthusiastic headlines like "Offers for May!", "Visa-free weekly tours!" and "Actually!". Although for useful information all this can be forgiven. There are promotional codes for accommodation, tours, various bonuses and explanations of how to earn miles on different airlines.

We talked about the founder of the travel agency Irina Mamai (“Chiptrip”) a couple of years ago. The business began with a community in LiveJournal, where Irina shared useful information about travel. Now great deals on tickets and hotels still appear in the community feed, but you can already buy them directly at Chiptrip.

Hypermarket tours "Travelata" collects offers from 120 tour operators. In the "Hot Tours" tab there are great deals for the next week. For example, now you can fly for five days to Tunisia for 12,570 rubles per person, for a week in Morocco for 14,914 rubles per person, or to Vietnam for 23,647 rubles per person. The case when the tour will cost less than the flight.

A convenient service for those who travel around Europe by bus. On the website or in the application, you can enter the point of departure and destination, and the system will give you the most cheap options how before desired city get. By the way, among the options there will be not only buses, but also actual trips to BlaBlaCar.

When planning a vacation, many of us are faced with the problem of lack of time to carry out a full-fledged tour search for all tour operators. Choosing from a huge variety of tempting travel offers the only one that fully meets your criteria, sometimes you have to be pretty nervous, shoveling more than a dozen travel sites, calling more than one travel agency. Then you try to bring together the information received, which, as a rule, by this time has become outdated or changed, they are replaced by new ones, which, in turn, again require time and nerve energy for collection and analysis.

Therefore, we have concentrated our efforts to make the search for a tour across all tour operators an easy, understandable and enjoyable procedure that can provide any interested potential tourist with comprehensive information about everything that he wants to know before making his choice in a matter of minutes. Information is available around the clock, the database is continuously updated and always up-to-date. Using our search, you will be the first to quickly learn about falling prices for popular destinations or about last-minute trips, you can easily book a hotel, buy a ticket, purchase a first-hand tour, perform all the necessary actions without leaving your home or office in a matter of minutes.

By the way, you can use the tour search for all operators on our website without even registering. A powerful automatic monitoring system gives our website customers not only a time advantage over the rest. When choosing a tour, strict filters are used to select travel service providers in terms of their reliability and competence. We deliberately filter out dubious offers, giving preference to the giants of the tourism market with an impeccable reputation.

For example, Booking Tours works closely with such a grand travel business as Tez Tour, a tour operator whose tour search is thereby greatly simplified for our customers. No less versatile services are provided on our website by a well-known player with a successful reputation - Biblio Globus tour operator, the search for a tour is carried out in all directions of this travel representative without restrictions and delays. Finally, the third "whale" of the tourism world, as you know, cooperates exclusively with trusted companies - Sanmar tour operator, who is often interested in finding a tour from potential vacationers who come to our site who love comfortable tourism.

As you can see, the price competition of the leading representatives of the leisure industry with an increasing level of comfort offered gives our customers who use the Booking Tours system an undeniable advantage when planning a vacation.

In Soviet times, good workers received vouchers to sanatoriums from trade unions. And when a hard worker for some reason refused a ticket, and even at the last moment, they said that it was “burning”. The expression "burning ticket" has taken root and migrated to the modern tourism industry.

Now burning tickets are called, which are sold a few days before departure and at very low prices. Especially a lot of such offers during the low season. For beach tours - this is early spring and late autumn, and for ski tours - summer.

Due to the reduction in the volume of charter flights, there are not so many last-minute tours now. Tour operators try to make commitments in line with projected demand. The hottest offers are at the beginning of the season, when demand is lower and charter flights have already begun.

Veniamin Bondarev

Where do hot tickets come from?

Tour operators before the start tourist season buy or book air tickets and hotel rooms in advance. Formed tours are implemented by travel agencies. But it is impossible to predict exactly how many tickets will be sold.

When they talk about a last-minute ticket, they usually mean the ticket that has a very close departure date. In this regard, it needs to be sold urgently. The price goes down because you have to fill the remaining space on the plane and the hotel and at least earn something.

In order not to lose the money spent on the reservation, tour operators and travel agencies have to sell tours almost at cost. Yes, they will not receive the planned dividends, but they will not remain in the red.

For a tourist, this option is beneficial if he is willing to take risks and wait until the last minute for the sake of a low price, or, for example, if free time for the trip appeared suddenly.

Ilya Otkalo

According to Ilya Otkalo, the law does not contain the concept of a “last minute tour”, so by and large, a “last minute tour” is just a marketing ploy so that a tourist can highlight offers that are lower than the market price. At the same time, by selling cheap tours, travel agencies get grateful loyal customers.

Another reason why a ticket becomes a burning one is the rejection of already purchased tours. For example, a person planned a vacation, booked a ticket in advance, but just a week before departure he fell ill and canceled the trip. So that the place on the plane and the hotel room are not empty, travel agencies reduce the cost of the ticket and try to quickly resell it.

Finally, sometimes last-minute tours appear on the market due to force majeure events in the host country. If the political situation escalates in the state or a natural disaster occurs, the demand for tours to this country drops sharply. Tourists can only be lured by a significant reduction in prices so that the desire to save money prevails over security considerations.

Features of burning tickets

• Voucher to visa-free countries usually becomes burning 2-5 days before departure, and in countries where you need to apply for a visa - 7-10 days before departure. This means that time is running out for everything. Literally in a couple of days you need to have time to pay for the tour, arrange everything Required documents and collect things.
• You need to be prepared for the "low season" service. On the one hand, there will be few tourists around, which is a plus for many. But on the other hand, there is also less entertainment and attention from the staff. Do not be surprised if many shops and restaurants are closed, and hotel guide will offer just a couple of excursions.
• Travel agencies do not book last-minute trips without the full payment of the client. If, when buying a regular tour, you first pay a part of the amount, and give the rest of the money later, receiving tickets and a voucher, then in the case of a last-minute tour, you will have to pay it immediately and in full. This money is non-refundable.

Thus, a last-minute trip is an excellent solution for a person who is easy-going, but limited in funds. Such a tour is suitable for you if it is unprincipled for you (if only there was a sea, mountains ...), and you can adjust your vacation to the trip (and not vice versa).

But you should not agree to the first “hot” offer that comes across. Not every voucher, called burning, is such.

How to find a real last minute ticket

When the soul and heart require rest, it is difficult to remain cool at the sight of proposals that begin with the words "Super promotion!" or "Most low prices season."

But the seductive price tag does not guarantee that you really have a burning ticket in front of you. Perhaps the price did not fall, but simply became normal. Travel agencies sometimes deliberately inflate the cost of tours in order to later attract customers with discounts. In order not to fall victim to the "attraction of unprecedented generosity", study the prices on the market and find out how much the package of services offered to you in other companies costs without any discounts.

Many travel agencies, in order to stimulate sales, may pass off ordinary tours as last-minute ones. They just take the tours with the lowest price and present them as burning ones.

Ilya Otkalo

Also, sometimes the most ordinary tours with very, very cheap hotels. For example, it can only be a hotel that has just opened and has not yet earned a reputation, or a hotel located far from the sea.

Be sure to check out TopHotels.ru or TripAdvisor.ru and find out what kind of hotel you are offered.

You may not be satisfied with the level of comfort, even if the ticket is generally free.

You can also recognize pseudo-burning tours by other indirect signs.

• Prices for accommodation in expensive hotels belonging to some large chain are usually stable and do not decrease depending on the tourist season. If you are offered inexpensive ticket with a check-in at such a hotel, there is a high probability that the travel agency has cut the package of services somewhere and disguises the tour as a burning one.
• During national holidays, during the holidays and vacations there are very few last-minute offers. If you manage to catch a ticket that was turned down, you're in luck. If the travel agency offers a wide range of last-minute tours during the peak season, be careful.
• It is almost impossible to visit some large-scale foreign event, for example, a cool music festival or a sports tournament, with a last-minute ticket. Flights and hotels for these dates are booked many months in advance. And you should be very careful if the travel agency suddenly makes a "delicious" offer.

You are really offered a burning tour if:
- less than two weeks left before departure (the closer the departure, the lower the price);
- this is a charter flight;
- accommodation is offered not in a city hotel, but in a popular beach hotel where tour operators book blocks of seats.

Veniamin Bondarev

What you need to pay attention to when buying a burning ticket

Package of services

In this, a burning ticket should not differ in any way from a booked one in advance. Flight, transfer, meals, accommodation, insurance, excursions - everything is like in a regular tour to this country in given time. If you are offered a reduced package of services, then most likely they are trying to disguise the ticket as a burning one.

It must be understood that a burning offer may be burning because no one bought it in advance. The hotel may be useless, the flight inconvenient, the food unsatisfactory. Therefore, carefully study the contract and the composition of the proposal and, of course, look at the reviews of the proposed hotel.

Ilya Otkalo

Be sure to ask about the reason for the reduced cost of the tour. And in general, do not hesitate to ask the travel agent questions - time is short, and it is better to immediately clarify all incomprehensible points.

Advice: read the contract carefully. Pay attention to the legal details of the tour operator and travel agency, information about the license to carry out tourism activities, dates of flights, check-in and check-out. Examine the conditions for changing and terminating the agreement, as well as the procedure for filing claims.

Reputation of the travel agency

Almost all travel companies offering hot deals. After all, they all conclude agreements with major tour operators and use their databases. But not all travel agencies conscientiously fulfill their duties, and some sometimes frankly cheat.

In order to find out if the price is really reduced, you can compare tours for the next dates using online tour search engines.

Veniamin Bondarev

To buy a cheap last-minute tour, and not just a cheap tour with disgusting conditions, contact trusted companies that have been operating on the market for a long time. It is best to choose an agency whose services you yourself or your friends have already used. It is also worth looking for reviews on travel forums.

Advice: if in doubt, check the tour operator according to the Unified Federal Register of Tour Operators, and the travel agency according to the register of travel agencies.

Visa

Hot tours are, as a rule, tours in popular tourist destinations. This is because the status of a burning ticket gets 7-10 days before departure. It is difficult to get a visa during this time.

Yes, travel agencies work with consulates is usually already debugged. But difficulties with documents can always arise: the wrong certificate, the questionnaire is incorrectly filled out, and so on. And then the client will be denied a visa, he will not fly anywhere and his money will simply burn out.

Advice: to fly to Europe on a last-minute ticket, apply for a Schengen visa in advance on your own.