Biblio-Globus and Vipservice are the only Russian tour operators in the Forbes ranking
Forbes has prepared a rating of the largest private companies in Russia. Biblio-Globus and Vipservice were the only tour operators on this list, and in 2018 they showed serious growth.
“Above the average grew engineering companies (22%), the only representative of the light industry Gloria Jeans (20.4%), oil companies (20.3%), tourism (Vipservice and Biblio-Globus, an average growth of 19%) and trade (16.4%)”, – reports Forbes.
According to Forbes, in 2018, Biblio-Globe fell to 106th place, rising by 26 positions – in 2017, the company was 132 positions. “Vipservice” in 2017 took 78th place, and in 2018 – 84th.
Revenue of “Vipservice” increased from last year’s 97 billion rubles to 103.7 billion in 2018. Biblio-Globus: in 2017, revenue amounted to 60.6 billion rubles, and in 2018 79.5 billion.
Vipservice and Biblio Globus are the only travel companies that have been in the top 200 for the last 5 years. For example, in 2013, the leader of travel companies was "Vipservice" - 96 line (revenue of the company 52.3 billion) "Biblio Globus" was on 142 positions with revenue of 36.5 billion rubles. On the 146 line in 2013 was “Pegasus” (34.6 billion), 170 – “Tez Tour” with an indicator of 28 billion rubles.
The position of airlines was also analyzed by specialists of the Russian tourism market. In 2018, as in 2017, the leader of the TOP-200 largest private companies in Russia in this segment was Siberia, which took the 75th line with an indicator of 117.7 billion. In 2017, the carrier occupied the 69th line with revenue of 108.1 billion. It is followed by UTair - 119th place. In third place, Ural Airlines, which rose from 144th to 142nd place.
In 2016 and 2017, these three carriers were also in the ranking. In 2015, the top was able to get bankrupt in the fall of “Trasaero”, its revenue in 2014 was 113.8 billion rubles.