From Sochi to Cape Town: Russian tourist business has been noted in 47 countries
V community The Travel Presidium, which unites more than 11 thousand representatives of the tourism industry, summed up the results of the survey: experts offered to name the countries they used in 2021.
Russia, as expected, took the first place – our country received 188 votes. Native resorts and excursion centers are now on the rise, so it is not surprising that employees of the tourist business often go there on business trips or on vacation. “It’s like home in Sochi,” wrote one of the community members.
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The rating of popular destinations, the results of the Moscow travel survey, has changed beyond recognition. If 2 years ago the resorts of Italy were arguing with Andorra for the championship, now there are completely different mountains on the podium.
Turkey lost only 18 votes to the leader – its members ranked second. Due to the loyal rules of entry and good quality-price management, the demand for holidays in Turkey is especially high. In addition, traditional tour operators host major events for retail partners in this country.
Egypt is in third place by a wide margin (89 votes). The last restrictions on air travel in this direction were canceled only in the fall. Therefore, we can assume that it turned out a little underestimated – not everyone was able to go on advertising tours and evaluate the changes in the hotel in Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh.
The fourth place belongs to the United Arab Emirates (33 votes). The country opened to Russian tourists earlier than others, more than a year ago. Nevertheless, only the autumn world exhibition “Expo” has appeared as a bright reason for tourism specialists to visit it.
Greece also entered the top 5 (32 votes). Last year, its authorities canceled the quota for the entry of tourists from Russia. This allows tour operators to more actively form tours, but the tourist flow is still small, since the number of flights from Russia was still limited.
Experts traveled to the Maldives with almost the same character (30 mentions). During the pandemic, this destination became, perhaps, a popular vacation spot for VIP-tourists, so the staff of tour operators and travel agencies sought to refresh their knowledge of luxury hotels on the islands.
But there are very few European countries in the ranking, for obvious reasons. Croatia and Serbia received eight and seven mentions each. Bulgaria, Albania, Italy – six each. All these countries, with the exception of Italy, are officially open to Russian tourists. Of the exotic options, one can note the first flight of Aeroflot, as well as South Africa – before the advent of the omicron, the South African direction was in demand.
In general, despite the continuing restrictions, the participants of the “Travel Presidium” managed to visit the 47th of the world, which is a confirmed recovery of the restoration of international tourism. However, it cannot be said that all employees of travel companies are now actively traveling. Judging by the comments, among those who made more than 10 trips in 2021, there are also those who never went anywhere. “I just don’t want to,” one of the group members explained.