Demand for tourist trips in Russia is declining, as is the depth of booking. This is primarily due to the decline in sales of key resort destinations - Crimea and Sochi.
According to data from tour operator Alean, the volume of bookings from 1 to 18 June decreased by 12%. The booking system "Travelata.ru" records a drop in sales of 25%. Vice President of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) Sergey Romashkin noted that the total number of bookings in the domestic market in January-June decreased by 5-6%.
Representatives of the tourist industry note a combination of reasons that influence the decrease in interest to travel to Sochi and Crimea. Among them stand out: the lifting of the moratorium on the sale of tourist products to countries of the Middle East (UAE, Qatar, etc.), the presence of a "strong" national currency of Russia encourages tourists to purchase foreign tourist products (in Vietnam, Thailand, Turkey, Egypt). Romashkin notes that foreign resorts have taken from Russian about 1 million people. This is about 10% of the outbound tourist flow and 1-2% of the domestic. There is also a tendency among domestic tourists to travel to Russia for short periods (in the Kaliningrad, Tula, Ivanovo, Tver, Kostroma and Yaroslavl regions).
Information source "Kommersant": https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8761493
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