Turkey has become the most popular country among independent tourists from Russia. This was reported by RIA NewsHe cites data from MTS Travel.
It was announced that experts examined the tourist flow of Russians abroad in the period June-August 2023, and did not take into account trips lasting more than 31 days and less than two days (to exclude transit visits) in the analysis.
According to experts, approximately half of the tourists traveling outside Russia went to Turkey. It was revealed that this summer, this country attracted 16 percent more tourists than in the 2022 summer season.
“Turkey has become the most popular country for holidays abroad. “In terms of the number of tourists, the CIS countries are ahead of Abkhazia and Georgia,” he says.
Abkhazia took second place in this ranking: more than 20% of Russian tourists chose this resort. In third place is Belarus, visited by one in every ten tourists from Russia. In addition, other countries such as Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, China and Uzbekistan also attracted the attention of the Russians.
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