Domestic beach resorts keep prices for summer
Early bookings of southern domestic resorts show an increase in sales, it is explained by "delayed demand" and prices. Southern hotels maintain prices last year or they have increased by 5-10%, hoteliers offer discounts on early booking.
Sale of tours for the summer of 2019 in Russian destinations started in December 2018. The demand for domestic resorts for early booking is more than last year’s figures by 10-15%, it is associated with the rise in prices of outbound destinations, and other reasons.
In 2018, many tourists were busy with football. We expect that in the summer season of 2019, delayed demand for Russia will play, says Sergey Romashkin, CEO of the tour operator Dolphin.
The average growth of hotel rooms in the resorts of the Russian Federation in 2019 is not more than 10%. Most hotels in the Krasnodar region hold the price tag of 2018 (price growth is no more than 2-5%), and hoteliers of the Crimea increased prices by 5-10%.
Prices are not final, according to tour operators. Most of the hotels in Crimea and Krasnodar Krai are switching to dynamic packaging: when demand stagnates, prices fall, and vice versa.
Russian travel buys on early bookings. In the domestic tourism market, we are talking about an increased agency commission (up to 17% depending on the tour operator). The traveler buys cheap tickets and a guarantee of a place in popular hotels, where there may not be enough seats in the season.
Russian hoteliers are now taking the example of colleagues from Turkey and Greece and give additional discounts for early booking. In Crimea, Anapa, gelendjikeIn January-February, discounts reached 20 and 30% – for example, at the Atelica hotel chain.
Krasnodar region takes the first place in demand among tourists - the share of destinations more than 67% in the total sales of beach tours from tour operators in the Russian Federation. Sochi is 60% of the demand. Anapa 20%, tuapseGelendzhik - less than 10% and other resorts.
The second place in the top preferences of tourists in the summer - 2019 is occupied by Crimea with a share of 28% in sales of tour operators.
Tour operators do not expect the reorientation of travelers to Russia due to the rise in price of Turkey.
People who are used to foreign summer vacations are unlikely to choose Krasnodar Krai or Crimea in order to save money. Rather, such tourists will choose another foreign resort, a hotel of a lower class or go for fewer days, says I. Gormakova, general director of the tour operator Multitour.
Representatives of Biblio-Globus believe that “... the growth of demand for beach resorts in Russia is now associated with the constant renewal of the hotel fund and improving infrastructure of the South, affordable prices of tour operators, with the absence of visa formalities and language barrier.”
Tourists who used to rest abroad make high demands on Russian vacation.
Market experts also note that there is no categorical mood of many tourists about Russian resorts. To save money, people organize vacations more flexibly – for example, they spend a year in Russia, and the next year abroad.
In Russia, there are hotels that provide comparable service to foreign domestically. In Sochi - objects of the Imereti lowland, erected for the 2014 Olympics.
Under the requirements of Russians in the Krasnodar region approached the hotels of Central Sochi and Krasnaya Polyana, in the Crimea there are quality hotels.
In “Multitour” talk about the high demand for the facilities of the network of hotels “Atelika” (with the “all inclusive” system), popular “Atelika Grand Meridian” 3* (Anapa), “Atelika Horizon” 2* (Alushta), “Atelika Grand Oasis” 3* (Tuapsin district), in the Crimea – “Atelika Karasan” 2* and Villa “Karasan” 4*.
Biblio-Globus customers are interested in hotels in Sochi, which operate under the All-Inclusive scheme - Orchestra Crystal Sochi Resort 2* and Bridge Resort 4*.
In the summer, exclusive hotels Fioleto 4* and Moremi 3* and Aurum Family Resort & Spa 4* will open in Anapa.
High demand and good return of tourists who liked their last vacation, noted by the tour operator for the "AZURY SHORE" park-hotel 3*, "Olympus" 3*, Sunmarinn Resort Hotel 4*, "Sunrise" 3*.
In the top demand for early booking - exclusive hotels Biblio-Globus - Marrakesh Gold 3*, Christakis 2*, Democratia 3*, Isidor 3*, Moreleto 3* and Dacha Del Sol 4*, Beton Brut 4*.
In Gelendzhik, for early booking, Orchestra Horizont Gelendzhik Resort 2* is in demand - Azaria Hotel (exclusive at Biblio-Globus). In Crimea - "Atlantic" 3* (exclusive "Biblio-Globe").
According to information: atorus