More than half of Russians don’t go on vacation at all
Russia Public Opinion
Research Center (VCIOM) conducted a summer in review monitoring. The survey of 1600 people from 138
settlements of different Russian regions showed that from year to year more and
more of our compatriots stay home for their vacation, and this summer was not
an exception. This year percent of those who stayed home in summer without even
going to the country side amounted to 54%. According to the recent years’
survey, the popularity of summer house vacation is growing: 14% have chosen in
in 2008 and this year it already amounted to 24%.
Nevertheless, the
tourist flow growth can be noted as well. Every fifth participant of the survey
(20%) reported that in summer he traveled either in
If we speak about
certain travel destinations, most of Russians prefer cultural-cognitive trips
across cities and villages of
While the domestic
travel market doesn’t show a significant growth from year to year, the
popularity of non-CIS states is slightly growing: from 2005 to 2010 the growth
was not more than 3%, and this year it amounts to 5%. The least popular are the
countries of the former
The overwhelming
majority of the travelers (89%) have positive impression from their vacations.
And those Russians who stayed home or went to the country house in summer
evaluate their holiday less positively: only 45% are satisfied.
53% of home-stayers
don’t travel because they don’t have such opportunity. Main reasons are private
life circumstances: health problems, the lack of money and so on, 35% of
respondents reported about it.
55% are tourists
having visited cities of