Визы, РСТ, Россия, Заграница, Транспорт, Туризм и закон, RTN Tech, Туристам
Главные новости

Inbound tourist flow to Russia feeds on Asian countries

08:44, 29 декабря 2014

Russia's inbound tour operators rated the past season as"rather bearable". Most of the markets that performed negatively had been replaced by the ones from other countries. Many foreign tourists came to Russia only in order not to abandon their already planned trips. However, the market players, forecasting the economic and political crisis to go on, don't expect the upcoming year to be any good. Among the most "injured" markets the experts name North America, Europe, and Japan. Some South-East Asian and East Asian countries showed upturns or at least remained on the previous year's level.

 

According to the Head of Russian office of the Tumlare Compny, Ms. Elena Rousova, the season has been a difficult one. At the year's start the situation was pulled off by the Olympic Games in Sochi. But later this year a drop in the tourist flow from Japan and Taiwan reached at least 20%.

 

"The season has been fairly good, says the Director General of the Tari Tour Company, Ms. Marina Levchenko, even though the flow of visitors from Europe, America, and Japan has gone some 45% down, the number of Chinese tourists has grown".

 

The Commercial Director of the Komintour Company's Moscow office, Ms. Ekaterina Nyunina, believes the upcoming year to be worse than the current one. The Chinese are the only hope. Maybe that's why this autumn's travel trade in Shanghai was attended by Russian travel companies that have never dealt with China before.

 

As was said by the Director General of the Svoy TT Company, Mr. Sergey Voitovich, the flow of European tourists had dropped drastically, but the domestic tourism is actively growing. Among the upsides of the season he mentioned the growing number of tourists from Iran. Over some years we have been receiving 1-2 thousand of them a year, but we have already welcomed 10 thousand this during this summer".  

 

Read in Russian

Обсудить в telegram

вам может быть интересно