Russia attracts more eastern and less western tourists
Last year confirmed the positive dynamicsof the inbound tourist flow to
Happiness is spoiled only by the fact
that unlike the good percentage, in the absolute numbers there are still very few
foreigners who come to
“The main tourist flow comes through
One more tendency that began to show in
2011 was proved in 2012: Asian and East markets which are new to
We should note that the most active tourist
flow is from the non-visa countries. The only Schengen country whose demand was
increasing within the previous year was
Most of tourists came from
There are the ones who were especially
affected. It's a pity to see the situation with
Sergey Viytovich is sure that same decline
will soon appear among other countries where Russian visa centers were opened. Really,
according to Nina Tikhontseva, the number of German groups in their company significantly
decreased due to the Russian visa policy. “Since last year, Germans have to provide
a lot of documents proving prosperity and financial stability. This turned out to
be a difficult task for tourists: groups are collective, the population is scattered
through small towns and villages”, – she explained. RATA-news has already written
about the problem.
Tour operators have great expectations
and concerns for 2013. But there's a great lack of places in the hotels of
Tourist departures to Russia in 2012
(thousand trips)
№ |
Country |
2012 |
2011 |
2010 |
2009 |
2008 |
1 |
Germany |
375,3 |
346,6 |
347,2 |
333,9 |
332,8 |
2 |
China |
343,4 |
234,1 |
158,1 |
115,9 |
127,2 |
3 |
|
179,8 |
169,8 |
162,4 |
183,2 |
185,9 |
4 |
United Kingdom |
135,9 |
128,5 |
126,5 |
150,9 |
142,0 |
5 |
Finland |
120,3 |
133,6 |
139,2 |
149,9 |
141,0 |
6 |
Italy |
118,7 |
125,0 |
123,0 |
113,5 |
143,5 |
7 |
France |
99,6 |
94,9 |
94,3 |
94,2 |
103,2 |
8 |
Israel |
86,0 |
75,5 |
58,7 |
46,5 |
32,7 |
9 |
Spain |
70,3 |
100,8 |
86,7 |
95,1 |
105,7 |
10 |
South Korea |
48,4 |
47,0 |
42,6 |
35,2 |
47,3 |
11 |
Japan |
44,7 |
38,0 |
42,2 |
39,3 |
44,4 |
12 |
Canada |
36,3 |
34,9 |
31,5 |
43,6 |
44,2 |
13 |
Australia |
33,0 |
24,8 |
21,2 |
22,4 |
26,1 |
14 |
The Netherlands |
32,5 |
37,9 |
34,9 |
31,9 |
35,4 |
15 |
Latvia |
32,1 |
33,5 |
33,8 |
33,9 |
66,8 |
16 |
Poland |
30,1 |
29,9 |
25,6 |
26,4 |
32,9 |
17 |
Switzerland |
28,8 |
26,3 |
23,9 |
26,2 |
23,8 |
18 |
Austria |
28,1 |
28,0 |
28,3 |
31,4 |
24,8 |
19 |
Estonia |
27,4 |
31,3 |
34,6 |
34,0 |
45,7 |
20 |
Brazil |
27,2 |
23,0 |
15,1 |
10,6 |
16,1 |
21 |
India |
26,6 |
12,6 |
9,6 |
8,6 |
6,8 |
22 |
Sweden |
23,9 |
27,4 |
22,1 |
28,3 |
24,9 |
23 |
Lithuania |
21,1 |
22,1 |
22,8 |
33,6 |
58,4 |
24 |
Norway |
20,6 |
23,3 |
22,5 |
27,9 |
34,3 |
25 |
Belgium |
18,6 |
17,8 |
17,0 |
17,2 |
18,8 |
26 |
Hong Kong |
17,0 |
15,1 |
10,0 |
6,2 |
- |
27 |
Denmark |
16,7 |
17,5 |
16,2 |
15,1 |
19,7 |
28 |
Greece |
14,5 |
17,1 |
18,1 |
23,4 |
23,0 |
29 |
Iran |
14,0 |
13,9 |
12,3 |
9,5 |
7,9 |
30 |
Mexico |
13,2 |
14,2 |
11,7 |
8,0 |
- |
|
TOTAL |
2570,5 |
2336 |
2133,9 |
2100,6 |
2295,1 |