How many Russian families can afford to stay away from home?
The Federal State Statistics Service published a study in which it was found that 49.1% of Russian families do not have free funds to spend at least a week of annual vacation outside the home.
The obvious reason is the lack of growth in real incomes of citizens, which has been observed recently. Also important is the increase in prices for tour packages – on outbound destinations, and in Russia.
E. Zeveleva, head of the Unified settlement center of the network of travel agencies “MGP” found that the average check for a foreign trip for two abroad for the summer of 2019 is 131.6 thousand rubles. In 2018 - by 5 thousand rubles less, 126.5 thousand rubles.
Tour packages in Russia are almost twice cheaper - 59.7 thousand rubles for two. But compared to the prices of last season, the rise in price is 5.5 thousand rubles. Bookings were taken into account from March 25 to April 3 in 2019 and 2018.
In the United Network, TBG and Hot Tours cite the following figures: tours for summer dates in Russia became more expensive for the year by 8.5%, up to 23 thousand rubles per person, to Turkey by almost 21%, up to 45.3 thousand rubles, to Greece by 14%, up to 55 thousand rubles.
The only popular destination in which the cost of tours is almost at last year’s level is Cyprus. Rest here on average became more expensive by a symbolic 100 rubles. per person, up to 46.4 thousand rubles.
Source: tourdom