How expensive are tour packages in Russia for autumn and winter?
The analytical service of ATOR conducted an analysis of the booking system for package tours Fly for September 2018 and 2017 to establish the search preferences of tourists and changes in the average cost of travel in Russia in autumn and winter 2018.
The leaders of search queries in September 2018: package tours to the Crimea (52% of all requests for tours in Russia) and the Krasnodar Territory (44.6%).
In comparison with September 2017, the search interest of users to package tours to the Crimea fell, and to the Krasnodar Territory increased. In September last year, Crimea took 57% of all Russian requests, while Krasnodar Krai took 37.7%.
In general, these regions formed in the past and this September 96% of all requests from travel agencies and tourists for Russian trips. Interest in package tours to other regions is small.
The leaders of search queries in September 2018: package tours to the Crimea (52% of all requests for tours in Russia) and the Krasnodar Territory (44.6%).
In the top ten destinations, which passed the most requests for tours in Russia, were in decreasing number of requests: Moscow, Karelia, Kaliningrad region, Stavropol Krai and Kislovodsk, St. Petersburg, Karachay-Cherkessia, Kazan, Altai.
The percentage of requests for a tour with children for the year increased by 68%. In September 2018, autumn and winter tours with a child accounted for 24.2% of requests for tours of the total number of them on Fly, and a year ago 14.4%.
In September 2018, autumn and winter tours with children accounted for 24.2% of tour requests of all their number, and in 2017 – only 14.4%.
Another trend: the criteria for choosing hotels in Russian resorts by tourists (and agents) have become stricter.
Last September, 72.2% of users who chose to travel to Russia for autumn and winter did not specify the desired category of the hotel, focusing on the price, and this September the percentage of requests was 57.8% (a decrease of one-fifth).
The share of requests for AI, UAI, FB and FB+ ("all inclusive", "ultra all inclusive", "full board", "full board with included drinks") also increased, they are the ones that are interested in families with children.
Over the past year, travel in Russia has become more expensive, although they do not depend on the exchange rate, as tourist products in outbound tourism.
A trip to Russia in September 2017 cost 41 796 rubles per tour package (tour price) for 7 nights and 72 369 rubles for a tour package for 14 nights, in September 2018 the figures increased.
The average price of a tourist package for 7 nights in Russia for autumn and winter 2018 is 54 894 rubles (an increase in the average cost by 31.3%), and a tour package for 14 nights is 98 119 rubles (by 35%).
According to information: atorus