Where did the Russians go in 2019? Official statistics
The border service of the FSB of Russia published the final data on trips of Russians abroad in 2019.
The total outbound flow increased by 7.9% compared to 2018 or by 3.5 million trips.
Last year, Russians traveled to 176 foreign countries and territories (excluding Belarus - it does not appear in border statistics), 48,072,285 trips were made - 7.9% more than in 2018 (44,551,092).
A third of the annual increase (31%) Republic of TurkeyShe is the leader of the outbound and tourist flow.
In the “general standings”, without dividing trips into tourist and made for other purposes, in the outbound flow from Russia in 2019, 10 states are distinguished:
Turkey (6,991,528 trips)
Abkhazia (4,802,475 travel, +6.5%)
Finland (3,962,865 journeys, +7.9%)
Kazakhstan (3,417,996 trips, +7.5%)
China (2,606,719 trips, +13.5%)
Ukraine (2,577,871 trips, + 10.5%)
Estonia (1,890,452 trips, +0.8%)
Germany (1,426,262 travel, +1.30%)
Italy (1,361,946 trips, +16.7%)
Thailand (1,231,441 trips, +0.6%).
To characterize the tourist flow, this list of countries is not relevant: in the outbound flow to the countries of the post-Soviet space, Finland, the Baltic countries and China, border movements with private purposes are dominated by shopping, visits to relatives, commerce.
Outside of the top ten, but in the TOP-20 key outbound markets of Russia, in terms of outbound tourist flow, there were:
France (579,307 trips, up 12.35% by 2018),
Czech Republic (559,994, +6.7%),
Bulgaria (396,296, -13.3%),
Israel (392,641, +1.43%),
Montenegro (369,023, +24.2%),
South Korea (323,730, +10.8%),
Britain (305 000, +9.85%),
Austria (272,455, +1.95%),
Netherlands (268,943, +8.60%),
Switzerland (253,356, +3.37%).
In 2019, the bright growth of Russian tourist flow showed relatively close and visa-free destinations (Montenegro, South Korea), and visa France with the UK.
Outside the top 20, there is an increase in tourist flow in USA (+2.23% by 2019, 251,037 trips by Russians), and growth of tourist flow from Russia to Russia Hungary (202,919 trips, +14.90%).
Source: atorus