How much do Russians spend abroad?
Tourists from Russia use mobile technologies more than Europeans. Also, Russians were ahead of EU residents in terms of the number of expenses in trips.
These are the results of a large-scale study by Visa Global Travel Intentions Study for 2017, it studied tourists from 27 countries.
On average, Russians can spend $1,676, which is less than $1,793. The top five were Saudi Arabia (5’333 dollars), Kuwait (3’143), China (2’988), Australia (2’745) and the UAE (2’722).
Residents of the Russian Federation are considered leaders in terms of duration of trips. Travel respondents from Russia take 10 days, exceeding the results of the average global tourist. The Visa Global Travel Intentions Study notes an increase in the popularity of online navigation and travel planning services, with 83% of people using them over the past two years (compared to 78% in 2015).
Residents of the Russian Federation can make an average of 4.3 trips per year and spend more than the average global tourist in 10 days, but this figure is one day shorter compared to 2015.
The popularity of solo trips has increased: so traveled every third Russian (34% compared to 27% in Europe and 24% in the world on average) – these figures increased by 3 times, from 10% in 2015.
Top destinations among our compatriots are Turkey, Thailand, Greece, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany.