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Catalonia is expecting more tourists from Russian regions

08:07, 20 марта 2012

March 21st the Minister of Tourism and Entrepreneurship of Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Francesc Xavier Mena, met with Russia's largest operators in Spain. According to the data received from the companies “Natalie Tours", "Time-Tour", "Neva", "Pegas Touristik", "Anex Tour", "Coral Travel", about half a million Russians visited Catalonia last year, which accounted by 40% increase comparing to the previous year. "In 2012, according to various estimates, up to 700 thousand tourists from Russia are to come, which will be at least 20-30% growth of the flow," - said Mr. Mena.

 

According to him, most of Russian tourists are coming to Catalonia from Moscow and St. Petersburg, but the geography of the operators is constantly expanding, so a large increase of flow is expected from Russian regions. The number of Russian tourists from neighboring countries such as Ukraine will increase by 50% as expected by the ministry. "This year visa issues were solved, as the result of the mediation of the Ministry of Tourism of Catalonia 18 additional employees, paid by the Catalan travel sector, were sent to Ukrainian consulate. A similar problem is being solved in Kazakhstan where negotiations on the increase of the consulate staff were held, "- said Mr. Mena.

 

 He also noted that the family beach leisure is still leading among the most popular tour products for the Russians, as well as the cultural tourism - tours are still main components for those who travel to Catalonia. With the advent of the large amount of direct flights to the autonomy "City Break" became popular, but, in contrast to the usual weekend in Europe, it’s longer - from 4 to 7 days. So far, however, it is only about Barcelona yet, ??but some operators have already announced that they are ready to offer such product in other large cities of Catalonia as well.

 

Second most important tourist product is medical tourism to Barcelona. Barcelona Centro Medico (BCM) operates on the public-private partnership bases bringing together more than twenty major hospitals of the city. "For us it is important that Russian-speaking patients are tended in their native language," - said Mr. Mena.

 

Ski holidays, actively represented on the Russian market last year, is the third major tourist product for the region. Ski resorts are conveniently combined with trips to the big cities of Catalonia, shopping, etc.

 

"The Russian travel sector, along with the U.S., is among priorities for us, - said Mr. Mena. - MITT this time was attended by many Catalan tourism administration’s businessmen and representatives – all in all 150 people. "He also noted that Catalonia, among other top European tourist destinations, takes the leading place on the Russian market, bypassing many other countries in the amount. During next two years Catalonia hopes to accept a million of Russian tourists, however, as the minister said, this number includes those clients who work on Ukrainian and Kazakh markets.

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