CIS hotel rates drop due to lack of Russian tourists
Accordingto a research by the Hotellook.ru online service, this year's consistent drop
in the tourist flow from
First
quarter of 2015 revealed a 40% decrease in the number of Russian citizens'
going abroad compared to the same period of the previous year - reports Russian
Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).
In For example an
average hotel rate in May went 26% down, from $121 to $89 per night. The same
pattern goes for Lithuania,
where an average cost of a hotel night decreased by over 30%, from $108 to
$74.
In
Hotellook's view, the same issue caused a 2% drop in international arrivals to
As for
percentage ratio, the most significant change has occurred to
The
research points out, that there is no such tendency in countries not heavily
reliant on the tourist flow from